Thanks, Jeff, for the summary. For those of you who were not at the meeting and/or haven't seen the new rules, yet, they are now also available on the MPI 4.0 page. Let me also reiterate Jeff's comments - based on the new rules, we'll enforce a quorum on all votes and if not enough organizations are present during the actual vote (following the new rules, especially if attendees leave early), we can't follow through with any votes. We also had a brief discussion on the scheduling of votes and we'll generally schedule them for the last day of the meeting (to leave the most time for discussions and errata readings before the votes). Hence, please plan travel accordingly. Thanks! Martin On Mar 15, 2013, at 6:48 AM, "Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)" <[email protected]> wrote:
As of today, the new voting rules are in effect. I have attached a copy of the 2013-03-15 procedures for your reading pleasure. We'll get this PDF up on the web site soon, too.
*** THESE RULES HAVE IMPLICATIONS ON YOUR TRAVEL PLANS TO FORUM MEETINGS ***
The new rules have a notion of "quorum". If enough organizations leave early, no ballots can take place. For example, the following organizations attended the Forum meetings earlier in the week, but skipped Thursday's meeting (i.e., the voting):
- Kyushu U. - Mellanox - The Ohio State U. - U. Alabama Birmingham - U. Tokyo
Under the old rules, these abstains counted as "no", but luckily we still had plenty of "yes" votes to successfully vote in the errata.
Under the new rules:
- Number of OOE organizations: 23 - Number of IMOVE organization: 21 - Meeting quorum: >2/3 OOE, or >15 organizations - Individual ballot quorum: >3/4 IMOVE, or >15.75 organizations
With 5 organizations leaving early, we had 16 voting organizations. This would have met quorum... barely.
Voting is important. The schedule is published ahead of time. Please plan your travel accordingly. FWIW, I believe that the votes will be on the last day of the next meeting, too.
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