Day 1 Steering Committee

Technical Officer
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Christian and Gildas explained what has been going on at BnF which made it not possible to replace Catherine and thus their problem with continuing to provide the technical officer for the IIPC as they had committed to for three years at the SC meeting in SF in March this year. Gildas has been acting in Catherine's position since she resigned from the BnF as well as doing his own job as manager on the BnF web archiving team and unless BnF management support him by reducing the amount of his responsibilities he cannot devote sufficient time to the role of technical officer. He also felt he was not technical enough for the role and the also that depending on the outcomes of the re-organisation at BnF he may be looking for positions elsewhere so didn't want to commit long term to the role.

As there were no offers from any other institution to provide the technical officer, the overwhelming consensus of the committee was that Gildas would be a very good Technical Officer and if the BnF were able to reorganise his responsibilities so that he had sufficient time to devote to the role they would support the BnF continuing to host the Technical Officer position.