Mary,
Mary Nishikawa wrote:
>
>> * Mary Nishikawa
>> | I think that we should make one
>> | TC with subcommittess, draft a new charter, and send out a call for
>> | participation.
>
>
> *Lars Marius Garshol
>
>> The trouble is that we can't do that, however much we may want to:
>> <URL: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php#charter >
>>
>> A TC is not allowed to change its charter.
>
>
> *Mary
> Yes, we are allowed to make a clarification, but not expand
> deliverables, which would have to happen if we merged the committees.
>
I will ask OASIS to confirm this but "clarification" is something that
can only happen at the organizational meeting.
Before we get bogged down OASIS procedure questions, what the charter
says, doesn't say, etc., what is not clear to me is why we would need to
start yet another TC?
So far, I understand your point to be it would require less meetings,
but so far I don't see a connection between the number of meetings and
the productivity of the TCs.
Can you outline what you think the new TC could do in terms of
substantive work that the present TCs cannot? (Honest question. Let's
leave aside all the formality and meeting issues for the moment.)
For me the bottom line is either we (inclusive) can either start
devoting time to what I think we all concede is an important effort and
thereby attract others as well, or no amount of organization, sponsored
meetings/teleconferences or the like will save the effort. The
procedural/meeting stuff is a means for doing work, it does not get the
work done.
<snip>
Hope you are having a great day!
Patrick
--
Patrick Durusau
Director of Research and Development
Society of Biblical Literature
Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface
Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model
Topic Maps: Human, not artificial, intelligence at work!
