Personally, I think "chair" should also be "meeting convener". The chair should be largely administrative/neutral/meeting organizer and runner. Convening meetings is a natural part of that activity. The chair should not be promoting a particular technical agenda (at least not as "chair"). On Wed, 26 Sep 2012, Jeff Squyres wrote:
As part of this discussion, it might be worthwhile to also bring up the auxiliary roles -- there's a bunch of things that happen behind the scenes to make the Forum function:
- secretary - meeting convener - web maintainers (main site, meetings site, lists site) - svn / trac maintainer
I mention this because, although I'm happy to continue in the role as secretary, a) if there's someone else burning to do that role, it would be fair to discuss it, and b) sometimes there has been confusion about exactly what the secretary is supposed to do. Maybe it would be useful to delineate the responsibilities of the auxiliary roles. Just like we discovered that we all didn't have the same conceptions of how the secretary applies the voting rules, perhaps there are other unwritten inconsistencies, too.
On Sep 26, 2012, at 10:27 PM, Brightwell, Ronald wrote:
Greetings:
I wasn't able to attend the Forum meeting last week, so I don't know if this came up or not, but given that it's election season in the US and MPI 3.0 has been officially accepted, it seems like a good time to discuss leadership of the Forum going forward. I know several people who have been involved from a leadership standpoint are in different situations now then they were when the 3.0 process started, and their priorities and commitments are different. I think it might be good to have an open discussion about making changes to some of the leadership roles in an effort to make sure that we start this next phase in the best way possible.
-Ron
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