RE: [atlarge-discuss] How are Committee Chairs (or members) to be appointed?

[<bruce@barelyadequate.info>]

I agree with Richard here.  Let's decide which committees we want to have
initially, an how we want to create, populate and chair them.  Then once
we're agreed we'll have a process in place to quickly create and populate
them.

Bruce Young
Portland, Oregon, USA
bruce@barelyadequate.info
http://www.barelyadequate.info
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| -----Original Message-----
| From: Richard Henderson [mailto:richardhenderson@ntlworld.com]
| Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 3:54 PM
| To: abel@able-towers.com; 'Atlarge Discuss List'
| Subject: [atlarge-discuss] How are Committee Chairs (or members) to be
| appointed?
|
|
| Abel wrote:
|
| >Motion to instigate a verification committee:
| >
| >Upon acceptance of this motion the panel proposes:
| >
| >to propose to the membership to request Joey Borda to chair
| a committee
| >for the time of 6 months, consisting of at least 5 but no more then 7
| >members
| >
| >snip
| >
| >Motion was tabled by Abel and seconded by Hugh
|
| A little definition needed here... Are you saying that the Panel will
| propose *ONE* recommended individual as Chair of the committee?
|
| And the membership are to "request" Joey (or whoever) chairs the
| committee... By what process is the Membership to *request* this?
|
| Will there be a Membership-wide e-mail vote (as for panel
| members)? Will the
| vote be via the Polling Booth? Will the vote simply be a
| straw poll on this
| mailing list?
|
| And if Members are to vote on this, what process will exist to propose
| alternative 'candidates'?
|
| I'm asking these questions, not out of negativity, but
| because we need to
| define *clear processes* before the Panel can go ahead with
| this Motion. I
| mean : you can't vote in an informed way unless you first
| define how the
| process will take place.
|
| And I suggest that the definition of process is important,
| not only with
| reference to this single committee, but because we need to establish
| procedure for the establishment of *all* committees.
|
| I suggest that the membership needs to be involved in the
| discussion about
| (a) what committees we need (so you don't get overlap); (b)
| who has the
| mandate to appoint the Committee Chairs; (c) what voting
| process should be
| used to vote for these Chairs; (d) will the Membership only
| be 'given' one
| candidate or will the vote be between all candidates that the
| Membership
| nominates and seconds; (e) and will the other members of the
| Committees also
| be appointed, and if so, by whom, and how?
|
| As you can see, the motion you have proposed will only make
| sense (and be
| worth voting on) if there is first an established and agreed
| process through
| which the motion could be carried out.
|
| Hope this helps.
|
| Richard H
|
|
|
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