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Subject: Voting membership in the UBL TC
Hello UBL TC, As I've been telling you in our phone conferences for several weeks now, OASIS has instituted new process rules that will require a wholesale revision of our TC membership categories. Under the revised process, missing two meetings in a row automatically changes your membership status from voting to nonvoting. It's pretty obvious to everyone that this new criterion was poorly conceived, and we can probably expect another revision next month to correct it, but in the meantime, that's the rule. It's now my job as your chair to go through the TC roster and make changes accordingly. Since I only started telling you about this at the beginning of May, I'm going to begin enforcing the rule at the end of next week (the week of 6 June). You can see where you stand by checking out the spreadsheet at http://ibiblio.org/bosak/ubl/attendance.sxc (This file is in standard OASIS Open Document format, which can be read using free OpenOffice software from openoffice.org.) Note that I'm considering our weekly TC meeting to be the union set of the three conferences we're now running to accommodate members living in different time zones. In other words, attending any one of the weekly conferences counts as attending that week's TC meeting. So you really have no excuse for not keeping up your attendance if you want to retain voting membership. For reference, here's our summer conference call schedule: WEEKLY PACIFIC UBL TC MEETING 00H30 - 02H30 UTC EVERY TUESDAY (MONDAY IN THE AMERICAS) 17h30 - 19h30 Mon San Francisco 20h30 - 22h30 Mon Washington 08h30 - 10h30 Tue Hong Kong, Singapore, Perth, Beijing 09h30 - 11h30 Tue Seoul, Tokyo 10h30 - 12h30 Tue Sydney WEEKLY EUROPE/ASIA UBL TC MEETING 08H00 - 10H00 UTC EVERY WEDNESDAY 09h00 - 11h00 Wed London 10h00 - 12h00 Wed Copenhagen 16h00 - 18h00 Wed Hong Kong, Singapore, Perth, Beijing 17h00 - 19h00 Wed Seoul, Tokyo 18h00 - 20h00 Wed Sydney WEEKLY ATLANTIC UBL TC MEETING 15H00 - 17H00 UTC EVERY WEDNESDAY 08h00 - 10h00 Wed San Francisco 11h00 - 13h00 Wed Washington 16h00 - 18h00 Wed London 17h00 - 19h00 Wed Copenhagen What this boils down to is: if you didn't attend any of the calls this week and you don't attend any of the calls next week, then you're no longer going to be a voting member of the UBL TC. Is that so terrible? Well, no. As a nonvoting member, you can do almost anything that a voting member can do, you just can't vote (and you're not included in quorum counts). It is NOT necessary to be a voting member of the UBL TC in order to be a voting member of a UBL subcommittee. So if you're currently working in a subcommittee and don't care whether you're a voting member of the TC, don't worry about it. If you do want to retain voting membership in the TC but are planning to be absent on vacation, then you should send me a request for a leave of absence (LOA), which will automatically be granted unless you've already taken an LOA this year. I've gone ahead and entered an LOA for Mark Crawford and Tony Coates, because they notified me that they will be on vacation all or part of this month. Send LOA requests right before you want to start your absence; don't bother sending them in advance -- I'll just lose track of them. If you have questions about the OASIS TC process, see http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php Jon Bosak Chair, OASIS UBL TC
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