Re: [chairs] TC attendance rules

[Duane Nickull <dnickull@adobe.com>]

+1 on this.

Duane Nickull

Thomas Studwell wrote:

> I have to agree with Howard WRT approved absenses. Often times 
> someone, who is key to the TC project, will be pulled away to work on 
> some critical problem in their business (its the key people who do 
> most of the work inside the TC AND their respective companies). If a 
> key person is pulled off and let's the TC Chair know that they will be 
> tied up for three weeks I don't see any reason why the TC Chair 
> shouldn't be able to 'stop the clock' for that person and restart it 
> when the stated absence has ended.
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> The purpose of the attendance restriction is to prevent those who only 
> show up for votes important to themselves. I don't think this type of 
> service to people who genuinely contribute to the TC harms the TC or 
> OASIS in any way.
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> Thomas W. Studwell
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> "The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees 
> danger in every opportunity."
> Winston Churchill, Sir (1874-1965)
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> It is inevitable that some individuals may miss a couple of meetings in
> a row due to unavoidable conflicts.
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> It should be up to the TC how to manage this, and in other organisations
> the concept of an "approved absence" is used, where the individual
> notifies the committee of the absence in advance, and the committee
> notes and accepts that absence.
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> I suggest that the rule should be removal of voting rights after the
> second meeting for which the member is neither present, nor an approved
> absentee.
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> Howard Mason
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