[195738] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 2017 NANOG Elections General Information
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bryan Holloway)
Mon Sep 11 01:57:40 2017
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To: Daniel Golding <dgolding@gmail.com>, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>,
Dave Temkin <dave@temk.in>
From: Bryan Holloway <bryan@shout.net>
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2017 15:59:19 -0500
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> This leads to a good point, and I think the point Randy was trying to make
> - the Board elections should not be a popularity contest, either in terms
> of who people like or who the best engineers are. It should *not* be
> focused on who has the most fun at the socials or the room parties.
+1 ... and ..
... if I may expand candidly on this, I'd like to see a little less of
an -- to use the term loosely -- "Old Boys Network" mentality at meetings.
I point specifically to the opening talk at Bellevue where there were
wackily photoshop'd pictures of NANOG star heavy-hitters.
I consider myself a relative newcomer to the community, and I find the
meetings invaluable, but I've been to enough of them to know who the
folks pictured were. Had I been a first-time attendee, I would've felt
like a high-school freshman being told who all the "cool seniors" were.
Frankly, it was awkward and off-putting.
Just my $0.02 worth.
> On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 2:28 AM Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
>
>> my impression is that, in recent years, one has to be a white frat boy
>> who is proud of being drunk.
>>
>> randy, who stopped attending
>>
