[atlarge-discuss] Provional Membership Committee

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

Dear Joop:

I do not know if the Panel has elected a Chairperson or not. I therefore send the following reort to you as the Panel member who earned the highest number of votes in the recent @Large election.

Please find below the report of the Provisional Membership Committee.

This committee was not authorized by your Panel due to the fact that no Panel was in place at the time members were asked to volunteer to look into allegations that non-persons (unverified Internet persona) may have been included as canndidates and elected to office.

The committee udertook to use the 24 hour period from 00:00Zulu Saturday to 00:00Zulu Sunday to look into these allegations and to attempt to determine if the elected Panel members had complied with three conditions requested by some members.  Those simple requirements were:

1) that the elected Panel member be a real person and verified as such.
2) that the elected Panel member declare her / his willingness to serve on the Panel for a time certain.
3) that the elected Panel member make hemself or herself known to the membership they are elected to serve by way of an introductory post to the atLarge-discuss list.

Our report and addenda are copied below.

Respectfully, Ron Sherwood

We, the members of the Provisional Membership Committee wish to advise the
elected Panel and our @Large membership that during the past 24 hours we
have determined that:

1) All elected Panel members are real persons and not artificial persona. (With the exception of two members, which comments are set as addenda (i) and (ii) below.)


2) a number of elected Panelists have declined to respond to members requests to
introduce themselves to the membership on the atlarge-discuss list.

3) one elected Panelist, Sebastian Klein, has declined to confirm a willingness to work
on the Panel for a time certain.

4) one Panel member,Sebastian Klein, has not responded to any email requests and has
failed to post to any of this organization's fora.  It is a possibility that
Sebastian Klein is on vacation or incommunicado for some other reason, but we
find it unreasonable that this Panelist has not asked to be excused from
attending meetings of the Panel or posting on the atLarge-discuss list.

5) It is our recommendation to the Panel that:

a) All unknown Panelists be required to introduce themselves to the
membership on the atLarge-discuss list. (With the exception of one member 
which comment is set as addendum (iii) below.)

b) Sebastian Klein be contacted and advised that his failure to attend three
consecutive meetings or his failure to vote on three consecutive motions
will lead to his automatic resignation from the Panel. (With the exception of one member
which comment is set as addendum (iv) below.)

c) if, for any reason, Sebastian Klein (or any other Panelist) resigns from the
Panel, The next highest, qualified, vote-getter should be asked to join the
Panel as a replacement.

Addendum (i)  Sotiris Sotiropoulos dissented from that consensus with the following notation:
"No. No. No.  We have established nothing of the kind.  I cannot agree."
Addendum (ii)  Micheal Sherril dissented from the consensus with the following notation:
"No, we have not established that statement for certain"
Addendum (iii)  Micheal Sherril dissented from the consensus with the following notation:
"If they have not introduced themselves to the atLarge discuss list by this 
deadline this is a moot point.  Recommend the boot, instead.  They have already 
been asked several times to do this."
Addendum (iv)  Micheal Sherril dissented from the consensus with the following notation:
"Same as above.  Klein has missed the deadline.  Recommend the boot, instead.

Eleven members volunteered to work on this committee, nine members participated.

The nine participants are:
Joey Borda
Jeff Holt
Kristen Doyle
Martha Gotlieb
Joanna Lane
Micheal Sherril
Sotiris Sotiropoulos
Abel Wisman
Ron Sherwood.