Re: [alac] Minimum requirements for participation

[Vittorio Bertola <vb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Izumi AIZU wrote:
> > 1. reading the ALAC-related mailing lists
>
> Though I agree this is "minimam" requirement, but just "reading" sounds
> short of "participation". It is too soft I think.
>
> "Reading and posting comments when necesarry" - something like that.
>
> > 2. participating in ALS votes
>
> Taking part of due digiligence for regoinal ALS applicants?

Agree on both - they are non-measurable, but still I think we should 
list them as a principle commitment to be undertaken.

> > My idea would be that the minimum requirements could be:
> > - explicitly casting a vote (including abstention, of course) in at
> > least 2/3 of the ALS votes
>
> In theory, this should be ALL, not 2/3, I think, if we allow abstention.

Yes, but I think we should allow for the case where someone is offline 
for two or three weeks, for any possible reason (vacation, illness, 
whatever - even missing the vote call or losing email).

One could think of allowing "justifications", i.e. the Committee could 
excuse someone for not meeting the requirement, if he/she can provide a 
good reason. This, however, brings more "bureaucracy" into the process, 
so I would rather allow for a small percentage of absences (by the way, 
full participation is an important criteria for being an ALAC member, 
but not the only one).

> > I think that 9 or 12 months is a reasonable span of time to measure
> > participation - less than that would be a problem in case of special
> > periods in private life / daytime jobs, more would not be effective.
>
> To me, 6 to 9 months be enough. IF there is special circumstances,
> when s/he knows it difficult to participate in advance, either s/he
> should acknolwdget, or step down. Given the current situation, I think
> we do not have much luxury in wasting our time and energy.

Other opinions? Even six months would be fine by me, if we think it is 
better to be more reactive.
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