Re: [atlarge-discuss] Request for Urgent Decisions

["Ron Sherwood" <sherwood@islands.vi>]

As I stated in my earlier reply to Richard's questions:

    The four areas of action are all important but, in my opinion, if the
same few people that elected the Interim Panel are going to elect the BoD,
then what has changed?  Surely it is very important to have a large number
of voters.  It is also important that those voters know what they are voting
for.  That is why I believe that outreach, voter education and an ability
for to watch the development of the mission statement and bye-laws should be
concurrent processes.

    Vittorio's task division addresses the problem very well.  Provided the
teams are in constant contact and are prepared to delegate tasks to
non-panel-members where appropriate, I think it is possible to meet the time
constraints.

Ron Sherwood


----- Original Message -----
From: "Vittorio Bertola" <vb@vitaminic.net>
To: "Richard Henderson" <richardhenderson@ntlworld.com>
Cc: <atlarge-panel@lists.fitug.de>; <atlarge-discuss@lists.fitug.de>
Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 12:49 PM
Subject: Re: [atlarge-discuss] Request for Urgent Decisions


> On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 19:32:19 +0100, you wrote:
>
> >I would like to ask each member of our panel these questions:
> >
> >(a) Do you agree that an election should take place by July 27th?
> >
> >(b) If not, how do you propose the panel should proceed, given that it's
mandate is due to run out?
> >
> >(c) What action plan should be set in place and what timescales
introduced?
> >
> >My friends, we have just over 3 weeks to start the election off.
> >
> >Your views please?
>
> My views is that, as I already said in a number of previous messages,
> we should have single persons or VERY SMALL working groups (2-3
> people) working on the four topics:
> - Bylaws
> - Website improvement
> - Mechanism for elections / identity verification
> - Outreach [this could be a bigger group]
>
> Now, I think that we should simply proceed by doing that. I volunteer
> to work on the Bylaws by taking Cecily Wood's initial proposal as a
> start.
>
> About the elections, I think we should have them, but before we should
> get some results in terms of bylaws and outreach. Very sincerely, I'd
> have a confirmation vote among the membership to move the elections
> from end July to end September, so that September can be used as a
> proper campaigning month, and we have more time for the Bylaws, and we
> don't have elections in the middle of the summer. However, I'd try to
> move forward with the Bylaws so that if we finish them by end June we
> might decide to have elections in July.
>
> I really think that having elections before having accomplished
> anything would be a waste of time. But I don't want to look like the
> one who wants to stick to the Chair :-)
> --
> .oOo.oOo.oOo.oOo vb.
> Vittorio Bertola     <vb@vitaminic.net>    Ph. +39 011 23381220
> Vitaminic [The Music Evolution] - Vice President for Technology
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