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

[Noah Botimer]

A purpose of our construction is robustness. If an individual member will be away for an extended time, that should not substantively change the viability or capacity of the group.

As the membership is individual, I think that the onus is on the individual to maintain awareness of group activity, notify the group of extended absence, or request special assistance for help in staying current while away from the office.

With respect to activity around the July-August timeframe, something in the PMC bylaws would certainly not be surprising, even if inconvenient. I respect the cultural and regional subtleties to all timing (calendar or clock) issues, but the suggestion was not made arbitrarily. It aligns with other important and well-published community activities during the calendar year.

With respect to ad-hoc votes, they come up when they come up -- and I think the robustness of our membership handles that versus scheduling irregularities as well as any solution could.

Thanks,
-Noah

On Jan 9, 2014, at 11:27 AM, Jean-Francois Leveque wrote:

> 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?
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