P&P: Re: Draft training message

[jim.s3@juno.com]

SUO Policies,

        I'm going to assume the silence is consensus and send this out.

Jim




On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 23:45:21 -0500 jim.s3@juno.com writes:
> 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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