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Subject: New OASIS TC membership categories
I have copied below the new provisions in the OASIS
Technical Committee Process concerning TC membership.
You will see that there is a new membership
category – Member. A Member
is distinguished from a Voting Member by not being required to meet the
participation requirements – 2 of every 3 meetings and 2 of every 3 votes
on KAVI. Both Observers and Members will continue
to receive all TC messages and be able to post
messages to the list. If you are currently an Observer and would like to become a
Member instead, please let me know by means of an email to my personal address –
john@greacen.net.
I will convert you to the new
Member status. If you want to
become a Voting Member, you must go through the OASIS registration process and
the 60 day probationary period. Please also be aware that the revised TC
Process requires TC chairs to
strictly enforce the Voting Member participation requirements. The warning process has
been eliminated. A few of
our Voting Members have been lax in their recent participation. Please be warned that Observer An Eligible Person may become an Observer of the TC by registering as an Observer using the electronic
collaboration tools provided by OASIS. If the Eligible Person is an employee or
designee of an OASIS member organization, the Primary Representative of that
organization must be notified that the person has
requested to become an Observer. The Observer is not a member of the TC so has no attendance or participation requirements to
maintain this status, other than to remain an Eligible Person. Member Any time after the first meeting, an Eligible Person
shall become a Member of an existing TC by
registering as a Member using the electronic collaboration tools provided by
OASIS. If the Eligible Person is an employee or designee of an OASIS member organization,
the Primary Representative of that organization must confirm to the Chair and
to the TC Administrator that the person may become a
Member of the TC. Upon receipt by the Chair of
confirmation by the Primary Representative the Member
may begin participating, but shall not have voting status. A Member shall
become eligible to vote in the TC when the
requirements below are met. Voting Member A Member shall gain voting rights immediately after a
probationary period, which starts when the Member requests voting rights via
the electronic collaborative tools, and lasts until the close of the third
meeting or 60 days following the request, whichever
comes first. During the probationary period the Member must attend
two of every three TC meetings but cannot cast
ballots; if attendance requirements are not met, the
Member shall not gain voting rights. A Voting Member must be active in a TC to maintain voting rights. In TCs
that hold meetings, the Voting Member must attend two of every three Meetings,
with attendance recorded in the minutes. If a TC has
adopted a standing rule to conduct business only by electronic ballot, without
Meetings, then a Voting Member must participate in two of every three
Specification Ballots with participation established when a vote is recorded. Voting Members who do not participate in two of every
three Meetings (or Specification Ballots as described above) shall lose their
voting rights but remain as Members of the TC. A warning may be sent to the Member by the Chair, but the
loss of voting rights is not dependent on the warning. A Member may relinquish
his voting rights by sending a statement to that effect to the TC general email list. |
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