RE: [chairs] Simplified TC attendance rules (mixing meetings and ballots)

Rob asked a couple of questions, broken into separate
posts here for threading. 

   

* * * Oh, and BTW& The old TC
process (i.e. 2003 version) included ballot voting in the voting status
rules of all TCs. As of the 15-Apr-05 process, ballot votes now only
count against status in TCs that have a standing rule to conduct business
only by electronic ballot(note the only).  I have assumed this to
mean that if the TC uses BOTH meeting votes and electronic ballots, then
if a Voting Member fails to cast an electronic ballot, it will have no
impact on their voting status. 

    That's correct.  The version of the rule that
counted both types of events, cumulatively, was correctly criticized as
hard to administer.  So now we only count ballots for those TCs who
choose NOT to meet (by standing rule).  The latter option gives
widely dispersed and asynchronous TCs an alternative, but to invoke it
for a period, they must make it clear to the TC (and us) by adopting a
standing rule, which may itself be time-limited.  

 But, when setting up an
online ballot, there is a box checked by default for whether the ballot
is an Official Ballot.  Ive been meaning to ask whether leaving this
checked for our TC (which uses both meeting and online ballots), affects
the voting status of members? Or should we always be unchecking this box?
* * *

   For the few TCs that have no meetings and thus count ballots
-- that 'standing rule' minority -- the checkbox allows ballot initiators
to distinguish routine administrative ballots (like "Date for next
F2F") from specification ballots that *should* be counted for
attendance purposes.  We now are working on updated tool settings
and advice to chairs to support the rule change.  

    Thanks again for your feedback.  JBC.