Folks, I've had a response from Andre and Joel. It seems the WG needs to propose new chairs via Andre M. who must then choose whether to ratify this, that is all. I have suggested that we will agree chairs amongst ourselves by the end of the next telecon. IIRC we haven't formally agreed as a working group who should chair the new group. So we need a process for this. The best documented guidance I can find for the removal of existing and the proposing of new chairs is RFC 2418 ss4 [via GFD-C3 ss3.5]. And in the spirit of other OGF processes we should do this by consensus. We'd also like to do this quickly! I move to start the process of chair selection and propose using the following criteria: 1, We should have 1 chair or 2 co-chairs [GFD-C3 ss 4.3.1] 2, There should be a proposer and seconder for each. 3, Each person may propose one person and second one person (and may not propose or second themselves!) 4, The proposed person must agree to take on the responsibility. :-) 5, Nomination shall close by the start of the next telecon (15th Nov 2011) 6, We should conclude the process at the next telecon where there are at least four participants. 6, Consensus will be reached when there are no objections by persons on the telecon. 7, After the telecon I shall pass on our selection to Andre. Can we agree to this? Mike ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: UR-WG move to new chairs process. Date: Friday 04 November 2011, 15:02:05 From: Joel Replogle <joel.replogle@gmail.com> To: Andre Merzky <andre@merzky.net>, Mike Jones <mike.jones@manchester.ac.uk> CC: Joel Replogle <replogle@ogf.org> Mike - yes, the pages look very out of date. :-) Can you tell me (with Andre's confirmation as AD) who the chairs should be (including their email and gridforge usernames)? Then the chairs (once updated) can go and update the charter pages through this form: www.ogf.org/gf/group_info/charter.php?group=ur-wg Once that's updated there is an approval process (working through the AD again) for the actual updating of the web pages. Thanks, Joel On Nov 2, 2011, at 8:25 AM, Andre Merzky wrote:
Hi Mike,
thanks for the follow-up - this dropped of my radar. I Cc Joel, who should know the current status.
Best, Andre.
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Mike Jones <mike.jones@manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
Hi Andre,
What's the process for changing the chairs of a working group? UR-WG and management of corresponding gridforge pages.
Looks also that the charter is way out of date, I guess this'll need
updating.
Thanks, Mike
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