hi Andre, all, On 2010-11-07 19:01, Andre Merzky wrote:
For PGI, my very humble opinion is that a charter update is not needed as long as the group is undecided on the explicit way forward -- and that decision is long overdue.
If a group is deadlocked like PGI (or rather if it is running circles as PGI seems to do), it is the duty of the chairs to push the group along. In the worst case, if full consensus cannot be reached, a vote on the available options can lead to rough consensus, which ought to be enough to get things going again.
Thanks for this realistic "status report" on PGI. I agree, in order to move the group forward, a push is needed. So, as a first step, the group should understand the "available options". Then, after sufficient discussion of these options a vote should take place. For the vote, the group should define which group members have a voting right(s). And all this process should be done in a transparent relaxed manner, giving enough time to people to digest the thing they supposed to vote about. Otherwise the group will run into similar problems Etienne had just discovered. bye, Balazs