Delicate subject: changing the attendance requirements

["Eve L. Maler" <eve.maler@east.sun.com>]

My TC is huge (nearly 80 people), and a lot of the work is getting done at 
subcommittee meetings.  I'd like to find a way to ease the good-standing 
penalties on members who are very active on subgroups, and who occasionally 
can't make the whole-TC meetings because they're traveling or 
whatever.  However, I don't want to endanger quorum at the whole-TC meetings.

As I understand it, the TC can adopt a standing rule that overrides the 
OASIS rules (and RROR), though the requirements for passage of such motion 
are slightly higher than for regular motions; adopting a rule easing 
attendance requirements would fall into this category.  Do people think 
it's a good idea to mess with the attendance requirements at all?

If so, what might be a suitably mild revision?  I'm thinking merely of a 
small revision to paragraph 6(a).  It currently reads:

"A member shall be warned by mail from the chair of the TC upon failure to 
attend two out of every three successive meetings of the TC. Membership 
shall be terminated if the member fails to attend the next meeting 
following transmittal of the warning."

It could read:

"A member shall be warned by mail from the chair of the TC upon failure to 
attend two out of every three successive meetings of the TC. If the member 
has not attended two out of three meetings of the subcommittees on which 
the member sits, or if the member does not sit on any subcommittees, 
membership shall be terminated if the member fails to attend the next 
committee meeting following transmittal of the warning.  If the member sits 
on one or more subcommittees and has attended two out of three meetings of 
those subcommittees, membership shall be terminated if the member fails to 
attend one of the next two committee meetings following transmittal of the 
warning."

What say you all?

	Eve
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Eve Maler                                          +1 781 442 3190
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