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<div><blockquote type="cite" style="border-left-style:solid;border-width:1px;margin-left:0px;padding-left:10px;"><span><div><div>Jody,<br><br>My opinion is that we are already having a hard time addressing<br>the incubation task and that it might not be good to broaden our<br>scope substantially.<br></div></div></span></blockquote><div>I would expect the workload (and progress) of the incubation mentors to remain the same.</div><div><br></div><div>This would, I hope, bring additional people into this committee - ie venue for</div><div>project officers to review any proposed procedures and at least have a say</div><div>in what is expected.</div><div><br></div><div>The only reason I am proposing it as an increase in scope of the incubation committee</div><div>is to be inclusive; one "projects team" with incubation projects included from day one.</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="border-left-style:solid;border-width:1px;margin-left:0px;padding-left:10px;"><span><div><div>That said, I'm not strongly against the idea, especially if we had<br>chair that wanted to take this on.<br><blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div>For this to work we would need to ask the various project officers (for<br>graduated projects) to stay on as members of this committee; even after their<br>project has "graduated".<br></div></blockquote></blockquote>I believe that project incubation liasons are supposed to be added<br>to the committee and that unless they explicitly leave the committee<br>they would remain members after completing incubation.<br></div></div></span></blockquote><div>I was not aware of that; not sure it makes sense to me. I figured incubation was a revolving door</div><div>(after incubation officers answer to the board etc...). The incubation committee being focused</div><div>on fostering new projects etc...</div><div><br></div><div>I also note that the project officers can change over time; so the current representative may</div><div>not be the one that "handled" incubation. There is no roll to play on this committee if you are</div><div>not actively mentoring a project.</div><div><br></div><div>I don't mind acting as chair - I am not currently a mentor of anything. However we do need to</div><div>contact the current list of project officers and see if the like this idea -- why borrow trouble if</div><div>the idea won't go ahead?</div><div><br></div><div>Jody </div>
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