Results of poll on face-to-face meeting attendance and preferences

[Toby Nixon <Toby.Nixon@microsoft.com>]

The ballots regarding the proposed face-to-face meeting in July concluded last Friday evening.

 

We currently have 14 voting TC members, so we need 8 attendees to have a quorum to conduct business at a meeting.

 

Of the 14 voting members, 9 voted on the ballots, plus 2 members who are not currently voting members, for a total of 11 votes.

 

The results of the ballots were as follows:

 

For each location, would you attend in person, participate by teleconference, or not participate:

 

Rostock: Attend in person 2, participate by teleconference 2, not participate 7

Irvine: Attend in person 3, participate by teleconference 5, not participate 3

Redmond: Attend in person 6, participate by teleconference 4, not participate 1

 

On the fourth ballot, regarding preference between the locations, the voting was Rostock 3, Irvine 3, Redmond 4.

 

From this, I conclude that we would not achieve quorum in Rostock. We would not have a quorum present in person in either Irvine or Redmond, but when including participation by teleconference, we would have quorum in Irvine (8) or Redmond (10). The location preference is Redmond (by one vote).

 

The proposal is thus to have the face-to-face meeting in Redmond, July 14-16.

 

Any thoughts or discussion on this? Should we go ahead with this plan, so that those who plan to attend in person can make travel arrangements and the hosts can make logistical arrangements? Will we have critical mass at the meeting to make some decisions and move the work forward?

 

            -- Toby

 

Toby Nixon  |  Senior Standards Program Manager  |  Windows Device and Storage Technologies  |  Microsoft Corporation

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