RE: [oasis-member-discuss] Possible change to TC voting rules - inputrequested

+1

Well said.

Christopher Ferris

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"Gilbert Pilz" <> wrote
on 10/30/2006 01:27:14 PM:

> I'm in favor of some change to the current rules. I *have* participated

> in TCs with significant levels of "member packing" and it
has the

> following problems:

> 

> 1.) It is unfair. Only the biggest organizations have the resources
to

> pay people to do nothing but sit on concalls and vote.

> 

> 2.) It is escalatory. Once one organization packs a TC, other

> organizations are compelled to follow suite to "keep things even".
This

> "member packing arms race" is a drain on resources that
could be more

> productively applied elsewhere.

> 

> 3.) It is contrary to the whole notion of "everybody participates,

> everybody votes". The packees aren't there to participate, they
are just

> there to vote.

> 

> What I'd like to know is why people think that changing the voting
rules

> will effect TCs that don't have member packing? If you're not

> participating in the TC for the sole purposes of voting, why should

> having to share your vote with other (1 or 2) members of your

> organization discourage you from participating?

> 

> - gp

> 

> > -----Original Message-----

> > From: Jeff Mischkinsky [mailto:] 

> > Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 12:37 PM

> > To: 

> > Subject: [oasis-member-discuss] Possible change to TC voting

> > rules - input requested

> > 

> > Dear OASIS Member,

> > 

> > The OASIS Board Process Sub-Committee would like your input 

> > on a possible rule change regarding TC voting.

> > 

> > Currently any person who is a TC member can be a voting 

> > member. Since eligibility is determined on an individual 

> > basis, not an organizational basis, an organization can have

> > an unlimited number of voters (up to the number of members it

> > has on that TC).  Some concerns have been raised about this

> > being fair, being a drain on resources of those 

> > organizations, and making it harder to manage quorum. Other 

> > concerns have been raised that reducing voting power on TCs 

> > could reduce participation.

> > 

> > The options we are evaluating include:

> > (a) Leaving the rules as currently written;

> > (b) Capping the total number of votes that may be cast by TC
members

> >      from a single organization to 1, 2 or 3;

> > (c) Capping the total number of votes that may be cast by TC
members

> >      from a single organization based on membership
class 

> > (e.g., sponsors

> >      might get 3 versus contributors having 2).

> > 

> > The voting rights of individual and associate members in TCs

> > would not be changed by these proposals.

> > 

> > Please send your comments to:

> >   [] by 20 November,
2006.

> > 

> > Thank you,

> >    Jeff Mischkinsky, Chair; for the OASIS Board Process
Sub-Committee

> > 

> > -- 

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> > 

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> > 

> > 

> >