Re: PAC: VOTE: CS 2

[Lauren Wood <lauren@sqwest.bc.ca>]

I vote yes.

Lauren

Jon Bosak wrote:
> 
> To: workprocess@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: PAC: VOTE: CS 2
> 
> I've changed the last draft by removing the last sentence of the
> second para in section 1, which read as follows:
> 
>    TC meetings carried out over a sequence of business days that
>    follow one another in immediate succession are considered to be
>    part of the same session.
> 
> Terry (and Lauren) convinced me that it's best to just point
> people to Robert's on the subject of what constitutes a session.
> 
> I'll repeat something that I said before:
> 
>    Please remember that the language is formal in order to make it
>    as easy as possible to write bylaw amendments later, but this
>    is *not* the final wording of those amendments.  The idea here
>    is to capture policy decisions, and some aspects have to be
>    left undefined until we're done with the issues list.
> 
> Please send your vote to approve (or disapprove) the policy
> decisions embodied in this resolution to the workprocess list no
> later than Wednesday night, 2000.04.05.  Remember that a majority
> of *all* the members of the PAC is required to pass a mail ballot.
> This is, in effect, a test of whether we can operate by email.
> 
> I vote YES.
> 
> Jon
> 
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> 
> CS 2. TC Membership
> 
> 1. TC meetings
> 
>    Every OASIS TC is required to meet within three months of its
>    initial formation and at least once every calendar year
>    thereafter.  Any OASIS TC that fails to conduct at least one
>    legal session during a calendar year shall cease to exist at
>    the beginning of the calendar year immediately following.
> 
>    As used here and in the following sections, the term "calendar
>    year" means a Gregorian calendar year, and the term "session"
>    if not otherwise qualified means either a face-to-face meeting,
>    possibly extending over several days, or a telephone
>    conference.
> 
> 2. TC Membership
> 
>    [Note that nothing is said here about initializing a TC.]
> 
>    Any OASIS member or member/employee of an OASIS member
>    organization can become a prospective member of an existing
>    OASIS TC by sending written notice of intention to participate
>    to the chair of the TC.  Prospective membership begins one week
>    after this notice is received.  A prospective member may attend
>    face-to-face meetings as an observer and may attend phone
>    meetings as an observer at the discretion of the chair.
> 
>    A prospective member of a TC shall become a voting member of
>    the TC immediately following the close of the third TC session
>    held during the period of prospective membership or after 60
>    days have elapsed following formal application to join the TC,
>    whichever comes first.
> 
> 3. Termination of membership
> 
>    Except as provided in the section titled "Leaves of Absence,"
>    membership in an OASIS TC shall be terminated under the
>    following conditions.
> 
>    a. A member shall be warned in writing upon failure to attend
>       two out of every three successive sessions of the TC.
>       Membership shall be terminated if the member fails to attend
>       the next session following transmittal of the written
>       warning.
> 
>    b. A member shall be warned in writing upon failure to return
>       80 percent of all mail ballots closing during any 90-day
>       period.  Membership shall be terminated if the member fails
>       to return 80 percent of all mail ballots closing during the
>       90 days following transmittal of the written warning.
> 
>    Termination of membership in an OASIS TC shall automatically
>    end voting membership in any subcommittee directly or
>    indirectly created by that TC.
> 
>    [It is assumed here that membership in subcommittees is covered
>    by the traditional process set forth in Robert's that we
>    inherit from the current bylaws.  We'll have to embroider on
>    this in discussing Issue CT 6, coordination committees, and the
>    whole subject of how TCs communicate with each other.  One
>    important question will be whether loss of membership in a TC
>    also ends membership in joint committees to which that TC is a
>    party.  Resolution of this question is deferred until we
>    consider the creation and operation of joint committees.]
> 
> 4. Leaves of absence
> 
>    Every member of an OASIS TC is entitled to at least one leave
>    of absence per calendar year.  During a leave of absence, a
>    member is exempted from the participation criteria specified in
>    the section titled "Termination of Membership."  A first leave
>    of absence in any calendar year is obtained automatically upon
>    application to the chair of the TC.
> 
>    A member who has already been granted a leave of absence during
>    a calendar year may apply for a maximum of one additional leave
>    of absence during the same year, but a second leave of absence
>    in a calendar year shall be granted to an individual member
>    only upon formal resolution of the TC.
> 
>    As regards quorum requirements and voting criteria, a member of
>    a TC who has been granted a leave of absence ceases to be a
>    member of the TC and all of its subcommittees for the duration
>    of the leave.  However, membership in the TC and membership in
>    any still-existing subcommittee of the TC of which the same
>    person was a member at the beginning of the leave resumes when
>    the leave ends.
> 
>    The length of a leave of absence must be specified in advance
>    and cannot exceed 45 days.  A leave of absence begins no
>    earlier than one week after the date upon which the request was
>    submitted to the chair of the TC and ends on the date
>    specified, or at the beginning of the first TC session or
>    subcommittee session attended after the leave begins, or upon
>    transmittal of the first mail ballot returned after the leave
>    begins, whichever comes first.  Time allocated for a leave of
>    absence but not used due to early resumption of membership
>    cannot be rolled over into another leave.
> 
>    [Note that language covering participation in joint committees
>    will have to be added to this section when we define joint
>    committees.]