[sakai-pmc] VOTE: PMC chair/vice-chair tenure and election bylaws changes

[Jean-Francois Leveque]

On 09/01/2014 17:12, Sam Ottenhoff wrote:
>
>     It's not personal vacations, most French higher education institutions
>     are closed in July and August. Shouldn't I feel excluded because I'm
>     French if chair election are likely to regularly happen when I have to
>     be on vacation?
>
> But the PMC is a group of individuals and not a group of institutional
> representatives.  Members have been chosen to serve on the PMC because
> they have demonstrated a great individual contribution to the Sakai
> Project.  If the PMC feels like it is institutional work, or part of the
> institutional job, then something is wrong.

Suppose I'm on vacation from my institutional work, how do I know when I 
have to be available for the PMC? How long can I be away from network? 
How often do I have to check for new votes?