Heinrich Jagerblitzen
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Posted - 2014.01.16 02:53:00 -
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Anarchide wrote:
Thanks for your answers!
I would like to know more about the Chairman position.
What do you mean by "[...] as cpm business is not best for european or us time zones."? It's preferable to have an availability suited to Shanghai activities?
It always helps, but its not mandatory. CPM0 has members in US Pacific, US Eastern, GMT, and Central European times. That's part of the reason for electing a group, so that the burden is distributed somewhat evenly. I don't think anyone should let this get in the way of them running. What it -does- mean though is that candidates should be prepared for meetings at bizarre hours of the day. It could be late afternoon, midnight, 3am, or 7am depending on where you live. In fact, those living in Shanghai's timezone are probably the most inconvenienced, since you'd have to meet with CCP during your own work hours. For us, its much easier to get up in the middle of the night for a meeting and lose sleep, than miss a meeting entirely due to a work conflict.
As far as the Chairman position, its really fairly perfunctory, and carries no additional authority or power. The Chairman's job is just to guide the group, keep everything on track, serve as the primary point of contact for official statements/communications, and set the tone diplomatically. Historically the Chairman was just the member with the most votes (in the case of EVE's CSM), but last year we revised this so that the council picks its own Chairman based on merit. This has been the case of the CPM as well, where it was decided at the beginning of our term that I would serve as Chairman because I was the most experienced member and already had a strong established relationship with CCP. However, many will notice that I've deliberately not gone around calling myself by my own title (even though I don't care that people know I'm the Chair). This is simply because I don't want to over-emphasize the Chair's importance, or create political ambitions amongst candidates that mistakenly think its some kind of brass ring to chase. In the end, every council member is equally critical to the group's success.
CPM1 will have the flexibility to iterate on this as well. Every year the CSM changes in structure slightly and becomes better and better as they learn from the past, and I hope CPM1 continues this tradition. I myself am not going to be running for CPM1, but if any other CPM0 members choose to stand for election, it'll make a lot of sense for them to serve as the Chair because they will have experience dwarfing any incoming candidate. Ultimately though the Council's structure and operations will be up to CPM1, and they could certainly come up with a different set of group roles depending on the final winning candidate's individual strengths. The Chair and Secretary positions are really just simple tools to divide up the workload and to ensure things keep moving smoothly. |