New OASIS TC membership categories

["John M. Greacen" <john@greacen.net>]

I have copied below the new provisions in the OASIS Technical Committee Process concerning TC membership.  You will see that there is a new membership category – Member.  A Member is distinguished from a Voting Member by not being required to meet the participation requirements – 2 of every 3 meetings and 2 of every 3 votes on KAVI.  Both Observers and Members will continue to receive all TC messages and be able to post messages to the list.

 

If you are currently an Observer and would like to become a Member instead, please let me know by means of an email to my personal address – john@greacen.net.  I will convert you to the new Member status.  If you want to become a Voting Member, you must go through the OASIS registration process and the 60 day probationary period.

 

Please also be aware that the revised TC Process requires TC chairs to strictly enforce the Voting Member participation requirements.  The warning process has been eliminated.  A few of our Voting Members have been lax in their recent participation.  Please be warned that Tom Clarke and I are now required to “demote” persons to Member status (from Voting Member status) immediately upon non attendance at two of three meetings.  We will begin enforcing that provision following the next conference call.

 

Observer

An Eligible Person may become an Observer of the TC by registering as an Observer using the electronic collaboration tools provided by OASIS. If the Eligible Person is an employee or designee of an OASIS member organization, the Primary Representative of that organization must be notified that the person has requested to become an Observer. The Observer is not a member of the TC so has no attendance or participation requirements to maintain this status, other than to remain an Eligible Person.

Member

Any time after the first meeting, an Eligible Person shall become a Member of an existing TC by registering as a Member using the electronic collaboration tools provided by OASIS. If the Eligible Person is an employee or designee of an OASIS member organization, the Primary Representative of that organization must confirm to the Chair and to the TC Administrator that the person may become a Member of the TC. Upon receipt by the Chair of confirmation by the Primary Representative the Member may begin participating, but shall not have voting status. A Member shall become eligible to vote in the TC when the requirements below are met.

Voting Member

A Member shall gain voting rights immediately after a probationary period, which starts when the Member requests voting rights via the electronic collaborative tools, and lasts until the close of the third meeting or 60 days following the request, whichever comes first.

During the probationary period the Member must attend two of every three TC meetings but cannot cast ballots; if attendance requirements are not met, the Member shall not gain voting rights.

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. If a TC has adopted a standing rule to conduct business only by electronic ballot, without Meetings, then a Voting Member must participate in two of every three Specification Ballots with participation established when a vote is recorded.

Voting Members who do not participate in two of every three Meetings (or Specification Ballots as described above) 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. A Member may relinquish his voting rights by sending a statement to that effect to the TC general email list.