Re: PAC agenda 2000.01.06

[Jon Bosak <bosak@boethius.eng.sun.com>]

[lauren@sqwest.bc.ca:]

| > 2. Decide whether PAC phone conferences shall be open to
| >    non-members.
| 
| What sort of non-members? Do you mean non-voting-members? I 
| have no objection to observers listening, but I think voting members 
| who have committed their time to participate should have 
| preference in speaking rights. Obviously observers will also have 
| interesting things to say, so must also be allowed to say them if 
| they are allowed to attend. Allowing observers to take part could 
| therefore place more of a burden on the chair.

We have, for the second meeting in a row, forgotten to deal with this.
Mea culpa.  I agree that allowing observers to take part would place a
burden on the chair; in fact, I think that it's logistically
impractical (as well as expensive for whoever is hosting the call).

Jon