Proposed motion governing membership of the steering committee

[Steven Greenberg]

Any interested party may attend Steering Committee calls or subscribe to the mailing list.  However, in the interest of the smooth operation of the organization it is recognized that certain standing must be recognized before a person is allowed to vote on Steering Committee business.

Thus:

1. The initial voting membership of the Steering Committee shall consist of everyone who attended at least two of the regularly scheduled Steering Committee teleconference calls between April 1, 2008 and June 1, 2008.
2. Any Steering Committee voting member in good standing may nominate one new person to be a voting member per meeting.
3. Approval of a voting membership nomination requires a simple majority of the current voting members
   
4. Voting membership is dependent upon participation.  If a steering committee voting member becomes inactive, voting membership is revoked and they must be nominated and voted on to regain status.
   
5. A voting member is considered inactive on a given day if, within the previous sixty calendar days, they have done none of the following:
1. Attended a regularly scheduled Steering Committee conference call
2. Cast a vote
   
3. Posted a message to the steering committee mailing list
   
6. A voting member may be impeached, and their voting rights removed, by a 2/3 vote of the current voting membership
7. An person may be nominated for membership no more than once in a ninety day period.

[Elias Bizannes]

Please ignore this - Steve posted this to the wrong mailing list. It
was a discussion we had today on what constitutes a participant or
member.

People are welcome to join the governance taskforce if this interests
them
http://groups.google.com/group/dataportabilitygovernance

The outputs of our discussions will be presented in the next two weeks
- we hope to resolve our open issues by mid next week.



On May 30, 8:18 am, "Steven Greenberg" <green...@puzzlingevidence.net>
wrote:

> Any interested party may attend Steering Committee calls or subscribe to the
> mailing list.  However, in the interest of the smooth operation of the
> organization it is recognized that certain standing must be recognized
> before a person is allowed to vote on Steering Committee business.
>
> Thus:
>

>    1. The initial voting membership of the Steering Committee shall consist

>    of everyone who attended at least two of the regularly scheduled Steering
>    Committee teleconference calls between April 1, 2008 and June 1, 2008.

>    2. Any Steering Committee voting member in good standing may nominate one

>    new person to be a voting member per meeting.

>    3. Approval of a voting membership nomination requires a simple majority

>    of the current voting members

>    4. Voting membership is dependent upon participation.  If a steering

>    committee voting member becomes inactive, voting membership is revoked and
>    they must be nominated and voted on to regain status.

>    5. A voting member is considered inactive on a given day if, within the

>    previous sixty calendar days, they have done none of the following:

>       1. Attended a regularly scheduled Steering Committee conference call
>       2. Cast a vote
>       3. Posted a message to the steering committee mailing list
>       6. A voting member may be impeached, and their voting rights removed,

>    by a 2/3 vote of the current voting membership

>    7. An person may be nominated for membership no more than once in a
>    ninety day period.