P&P: Re: Draft training message

[jim.s3@juno.com]

SUO P&P Group,

        If there are no further comments, I'll post an info copy to the
full list tomorrow.  If no objections there, I'll send out to voting
members.

Jim


On Thu, 4 Mar 2004 09:47:56 -0000 "West, Matthew R SITI-ITPSIE"
<matthew.west@shell.com> writes:
> Dear Jim,
> 
> I agree with your additions.
> 
> 
> Matthew West
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> 
> > -----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.
> > ====================================
> > 
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