P&P: RE: Draft training message

["West, Matthew R SITI-ITPSIE" <matthew.west@shell.com>]

Dear Jim,

I agree with your additions.


Matthew West
Principal Consultant
Shell Information Technology International Limited
Shell Centre, London SE1 7NA, United Kingdom

Tel: +44 20 7934 4490 Mobile: +44 7796 336538
Email: matthew.west@shell.com
Internet: http://www.shell.com
http://www.matthew-west.org.uk


> -----Original Message-----
> From: jim.s3@juno.com [mailto:jim.s3@juno.com]
> Sent: 04 March 2004 04:45
> To: suo-policies@ieee.org
> Subject: P&P: Draft training message
> 
> 
> 
> SUO P&P Group,
> 
>         I like Matthew West's draft.  Here are a couple 
> edits, plus how
> we could present it to the voting members.
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
> ==============
> Message sent directly to all voting members
> ================
> 
> Subject: 2-minutes of training on new IEEE voting rules --- Please
> acknowledge completion
> 
> ATTN SUO Voting Members:
> 
>         This is 2-minutes of training on the new IEEE voting rules. 
> Please acknowledge that you have read this by sending a reply 
> back to me.
>      
> CHANGE IN VOTING RULES
> 
> IEEE has announced the following new rule for counting email ballots:
> 
>         YES > 0.5*VOTING MEMBERS
> 
> This means that abstaining, acknowledging (but not voting), and not
> responding are all effectively "NO" votes.
> 
> In practice this makes being a responsible voting member more onerous
> than in the past, when if you were not interested, or not 
> bothered about
> a particular vote, you could acknowledge but not vote, and 
> you would not
> be counted in the ballot.
> 
> If you have consistently not voted in ballots we suggest either:
> 
> 1. (Preferably) you take a more active interest in the work 
> of the Group
> and vote (YES or NO) in ballots.
> 
> 2. You consider removing yourself from the voting membership 
> (which in no
> other way limits your participation in the Group).  You may 
> regain voting
> rights at any time by making a request to the Chair.
> 
> A SUO voting member is anyone who has registered and waited 6 months.
> Members lose voting rights if they fail to either vote on or 
> acknowledge
> two consecutive ballots, but they can regain voting rights at any time
> upon request. A list of SUO voting members is at
> http://suo.ieee.org/SUO/documents/voting-members.txt.
> ====================================
> 
> ________________________________________________________________
> The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand!
> Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER!
> Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!
>