Technical committee chair rotation, draft resolution
I hereby propose the resolution below and call for a vote (and
obviously, vote in favour).
WHEREAS
1. The Technical Committee feels that additional dynamism would be
achieved by rotating the post of Chairman of the Committee.
2. There are certain constitutional issues with simply voting on a
rota. In particular:
3. The constitution does not provide for the Chairman to be removed by
the Committee. (This is arguably a mistake.)
THE COMMITTEE AND ITS MEMBERS RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS
3. The intent is that the Chairmanship should rotate through the
committee in the following order,
Ian Jackson
Steve Langasek
Raul Miller
Manoj Srivastava
Anthony Towns
Andreas Barth
Bdale Garbee
Each Committee member will server for one calendar month UTC, and
then the cycle will repeat (starting again with Ian Jackson).
(This list was constructed by taking the list alphabetical by
surname from the Technical Committee web page and rotating it so
that Ian, the current sitting Chairman, is at the top.)
4. The rota starts with Ian Jackson for February 2006.
5. This resolution should be construed as a decision in advance on the
part of the Committee to elect the next member of the rota, at each
relevant point.
6. Agreement with this resolution by each committee member should be
construed as a appropriate notices of the resignation of that
committee member from the Chairmanship at the end of their
scheduled month (subject to this resolution passing).
7. If a Technical Committee member does not state their agreement
with this resolution, and does not state an notice of resignation
equivalent to that in 6 above, before their term starts, then that
TC member is not elected to Chairman, and it is as if their name
were omitted from the list in paragraph 3.
8. Two TC members may swap their Chairmanship months, by mutual
agreement, by giving joint notice on the Committee public list at
least 2 weeks in advance.
Ian.
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