[LSC] LSC 2007-2008 procedures

[Michael Heidemann]

I agree to William. We should keep procedures if they worked well also 
in difficult times.

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mikeheide

William Howard schrieb:

> I think the simply majority for voting worked well last year, 

> especially as it meant we were not crippled when one of our members 

> was unavailable (and that included me for 3 months of the year!) - so 

> I'd say stick with it.

>  

> With regards to vacancies, unless someone actually resigns, it's quite 

> hard to determine that someone is no longer active.  And I'm not sure 

> it's that big a deal, as unless the group drops to two voting members, 

> it's still possible to get things done :-)

>

>     ----- Original Message -----

>     *From:* Travis Cobbs <mailto:tcobbs at gmail.com>

>     *To:* LDraw Standards Committee <mailto:lsc at ldraw.org>

>     *Sent:* Monday, November 05, 2007 8:21 PM

>     *Subject:* [LSC] LSC 2007-2008 procedures

>

>     If you take a look at the LSC charter (my name for it; document is

>     titled LSC Final Draft, which doesn't seem very descriptive),

>     you'll see that it's up to the LSC itself to determine its

>     procedures.  While not explicitly stated, there is an implication

>     that this is to be done by each LSC.  So you might take a look at

>     the charter here (specifically the Procedures section):

>

>     http://www.ldraw.org/Article382.html

>

>     Last year, we decided that for votes, a simple majority would

>     carry a vote, and that abstentions counted as a "no" vote. 

>     Personally, I think this worked out fine, although having one of

>     the members disappear meant that yes votes effectively required 3

>     out of 4, instead of the intended 3 out of 5.  We should probably

>     come up with a procedure for filling an early vacancy, and define

>     a vacancy by default.  (How long does a member have to be

>     unresponsive before they're considered gone?)

>

>     Everything else was pretty open.  Anybody who wanted to could (and

>     did) make a call for votes.  Anyone could bring up things they

>     thought we should discuss, and we generally tried to accomplish

>     the tasks that the community wanted accomplished.  William took

>     the lead on a lot of the issues, particularly in the second half

>     of the term.

>

>     I'm happy with the way things were handled last year, but am

>     certainly open to changes.

>

>     --Travis

>

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