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Subject: RE: [chairs] TC attendance rules
- From: "Sabo, John T" <John.T.Sabo@ca.com>
- To: "James Bryce Clark" <jamie.clark@oasis-open.org>,<chairs@lists.oasis-open.org>
- Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 10:49:48 -0400
Steve Hanna and I believe that it would be best
to relax the attendance requirement to 3 out of 4, and to
provide for automatic reinstatement once the required attendance has
been re-met.
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One area where we have some clear early feedback
on the April 2005 TC Process revisions is in the area of meeting
attendance. Under the current rule -- omitting the special case of TCs who
have no meetings, and only count ballots -- a TC member can lose their voting
rights by missing meetings:
A Voting Member must be active in a
TC to maintain voting rights. In TCs that hold meetings, the Voting Member
must attend two of every three Meetings, with attendance recorded in the
minutes. * * * Voting Members who do not participate in two of every
three Meetings * * *shall lose their voting rights but remain as Members of
the TC. A warning may be sent to the Member by the Chair, but the loss of
voting rights is not dependent on the warning. * * * [1]
We're actively discussing two changes in response to early
feedback.
First, the new rule -- which
takes away voting rights after two proximate absences without an explicit notice
-- is harsher than the prior rule [2], which included a notice prior to the
status change. Several have suggested this is too harsh.
Possibilities include
-- reinstating the notice (that is,
you cease to vote after 2 misses out of 3 PLUS a notice), or
-- lowering the bar (such as, you cease to vote after 3
misses out of 4).
The Board's process subcommittee is reviewing this
issue in June, and your comments are welcome.
Second, instead of requiring that a person who has
lost voting rights explicitly re-apply, we are considering making the simpler
default assumption that anyone who loses their vote should be automatically
re-queued to re-gain it. That would allow us to simply the rosters,
and delete the superfluous role "probationary voting member". All TC
members would either be "voting members", or simply "members" who will reacquire
their vote when their attendance again merits it. Again, your comments are
welcome.
Regards JBC
~ James
Bryce Clark
~ Director, Standards Development,
OASIS
~ jamie.clark@oasis-open.org
[1] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php#2.4
[2]
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process_2003.09.18.php#termination
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