[Eligibility-discuss] enfranchising mostly-remote participants

[Michael Richardson <[e-mail]>]

The current rule for nomcom eligbility is physical attendance at 3 of the
past 5 meetings.  Let's call this the (a) rule.

(a) Anyone who satisfies the 3/5 rule is eligible.

   I propose that we evaluate this in April/May/June of each year, as that is
   when nomcom cares, and that we apply the status until the following April.

   {This simplifies things a great deal at the possible cost of not
   enfranchising someone in November of that year for a potential recall}

I propose to add (b) rule:

(b) In April of each year determine:
    b.1 anyone who had satisfied the (a) rule in the previous year, but does not
     -OR-
    b.2 anyone who satisfied the (b) rule in the previous year
  AND
    b.3 has attended at least one meeting of the past three.

IS eligible for the rest of the year.

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NOW, I didn't write Physically Attended in B.3.

There are numerous variations and formula that we could go for here, and I
have quite a number of possible suggestions, but before we tweak that, is any
support for the overall concept?

{We *MAY* want to include a one-time bootstrap where we say that anyone who
was nomcom eligible back to... 1992 if you like... is deemed to satisfy (b)
for the previous year}

The GOAL is that once people become nomcom-eligible, we assume that if they
continue to be involved, that they continue to have a good idea what is going
on.

I think that having to satisfy the (a) rule at least once is still a pretty
big step, and my proposal does not mean I do not also want some (c) rule.

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Michael Richardson <[e-mail]>, Sandelman Software Works
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