On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 03:59:34PM -0400, Jeffrey Haas wrote:
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 03:13:01PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote:
Part of what I meant when I signed the diversity letter was to state a
belief
that within a pool of qualified candidates, I believe diversity is
important enough that it is valuable to select for diversity even if
this does not maximize the skills that you enumerated (tech skill, admin
skill, works with others and something else).
"Maximize" overstates my position. My belief is once the base requirements
are met that diversity is an appropriate tie-breaker. Maximizing the four I
mentioned is different.
I think that diversity is already taken into account
much more than just as a tie-breaker. Nomcon does
look at a lot of the factors influenced by the
candidates background / diversity stats already as
actual job qualifications: Knowlege/presence of
geographic regions, collaborative influencing leadership
stle, ability to engage with other cultures, etc. pp.
Cheers
Toerless