Re: [chairs] TC Process revisions released

[Duane Nickull <dnickull@adobe.com>]

What scares me is that I travel often enough that I may be forced to 
cancel meetings so I don't loose my voting status.  Since a chair must 
be a voting member, this has an impact on the ability of the TC to get 
the work done.  The SOA RM TC has meetings every two weeks and a face to 
face every 2 months plus we may have special meetings.  I haven't missed 
a meeting yet but have historically had to travel with less than 24 
hours notice.

There are two solutions on the table:

1. To address this, the chairs discretion could be used but someone 
pointed out to me privately yesterday that this could also lead to 
trouble of perceived favoritism.  If this is implemented, it would have 
to be very deterministic rules governing it.  Example - you have to 
inform the chair in email before the meeting and request an excused absence.

2. The idea of making only some meetings voting meetings also has 
merit.  We have a large membership in our group hence a large quorum so 
not all our meetings are voting meetings.

Here is a question from #2:
If a quorum is not present, the meeting is a non voting meeting.  Would 
non attendance in a non voting meeting affect status? 

3. A third idea is to revert to a more gentle threshold like having to 
attend more than 2 out of every 4 meetings or even 3 out of 5.



Duane

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