SUO: Re: Non-Active Voters
Matthew,
You make a good point. Just as we have a list of voting members
on the web site, we should have a list of past members.
Jim
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 10:31:23 -0000 "West, Matthew R SITI-ITPSIE"
<matthew.west@shell.com> writes:
> Dear Jim,
>
> That sounds fine.
>
> Where will this be enshrined for future reference?
>
>
> Matthew West
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: jim.s3@juno.com [mailto:jim.s3@juno.com]
> > Sent: 03 December 2003 04:13
> > To: standard-upper-ontology@ieee.org
> > Subject: SUO: Non-Active Voters
> >
> >
> >
> > SUO WG,
> >
> > The SUO Policies and Procedure (P&P) Subgroup has
> > addressed the
> > problem of voting members who are not voting and can't be
> > reached. We
> > developed the following policy, reached full consensus on it and
> would
> > like to open it to the fully group for discussion. It reads:
> >
> > "SUO WG voting members who do not acknowledge or cast
> > a vote in 2
> > successive ballots shall be removed from the list of voting
> members.
> > They will be informed of this action, provided they can be
> > reached. Such
> > individuals may immediately regain voting rights by making a
> > request of
> > the Chair."
> >
> > Background: We felt no desire to deny voting rights to
> any
> > member who wants them, but we felt the need to remove
> > non-active members.
> > In most cases, they have dropped out and don't want voting
> > rights. If
> > they do want them, at any time in the future, they can get them
> back
> > immediately just by asking. We considered making them wait a
> > period of
> > time, but we felt there could be very valid excuses for
> > missing two votes
> > and we didn't want to have to remove voting rights against the
> will of
> > the member.
> >
> > Please provide any comments or suggested edits.
> >
> > Jim
> >
> >
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