RE: [chairs] Attendance rules (was) TC Process revisions released

["Hal Lockhart" <hlockhar@bea.com>]

Be clear. The rule is 2 out of any 3. Once you miss a meeting, if you miss the next one OR THE ONE AFTER THAT, you are out.

Hal

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Rutt [mailto:tom@coastin.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 6:34 PM
> To: James Bryce Clark
> Cc: toby.considine@unc.edu; chairs@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: [chairs] Attendance rules (was) TC Process revisions
> released
> 
> 
> James Bryce Clark wrote:
> 
> >
> >     Not quite.  The intent of this rule has been, for some 
> years now, 
> > to ensure that a TC that has accreted many members, over time, does 
> > not become incapable of quorum, as members drop off without 
> explicitly 
> > resigning.  If you have 50 members, and persistently 25 show up and 
> > the other 25 lose interest, how do you get to a 26-member quorum?  
> > Answer:  you don't.  But if the 25 eventually are deemed to have 
> > resigned from voting membership, then quorum is re-set to a 
> reachable 13.
> >
> The traditional reason for the warning, is to let the 
> particpant show it 
> to his/her boss to let them know they have to attend the next 
> meeting.  
> It is helpful as a clout for the participants.
> 
> Thus I suggest we continue with a warning after the voting 
> member misses 
> one meeting, that if they do
> not attend the following meeting, they will loose voting rights.
> 
> I guess a Chair can do this on his own, so maybe it does not need a 
> formal mandate.
> 
> Tom Rutt
> WSRM TC Chair
> 
> >     Regards JBC
> >
> > ~   James Bryce Clark
> > ~   Director, Standards Development, OASIS
> > ~   jamie.clark@oasis-open.org
> >
> 
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