Thks Avri, count me in on the study team! Alain On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Avri Doria <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi, > > Thank you for thanks. I have made a sincere effort to do the work required > to make this SG a functional stakeholder group and yes, it does take a lot > of work that I have been generally happy to do. > > As for the pattern of active vs. non-active: I have not had a chance to do > a study on this. There have been a few suggestions that this be subjected > to serious consideration. I suggest that after all of this election activity > is over, that a small team work on understanding this issue and that they > propose new methods for the yearly process of confirming activity. The > charter calls for a yearly process and especially since we have no dues, it > does seem ok, to require people to checkin at least once a year, especially > since there are several issues like charter changes and appeal of EC > decisions that have voting thresholds based on active membership. The > charter all does not go into details on how things get done and requires > that the EC, with consultation from the membership, develop methods for > meeting charter requirements. That is work, the work of translating the > charter into a set of practices, remains for next year's leadership. This > year's process was an ad-hoc one I proposed and then followed. It was > obviously not as well thought out as it could have been. Now we have > experience to go on, and can correct or replace the process I used with > another one. > > A thought I might add. This requirement to check for activity is a new one > with the current charter. Many of the NCSG members has been members for a > very long time and may have fallen out of the habit of paying attention. > And while I did send separate email to everyone on the list at least once > while reminding people on the list, it is quite possible that my email was > consigned to garbage and that people are no longer reading the list. Also > some people were not longer at their previous addresses but I could find no > new address for them, though I did put in effort to find them. Many people > only responded after someone they knew made outreach. > > avri > > On 9 Sep 2011, at 04:57, Alain Berranger wrote: > > > Thanks Avri for this and for the elections page... lots of work!!! Is > there any pattern in the active-non-active lists that would give us clues on > how to improve the participation rate? > > > > Best, Alain > > > > On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Avri Doria <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > For those who care and follow this sort of thing. As of the Election > cutoff on the 5th, 56% of the NCSG membership had become active. > > > > It is my sincerest hope that whomever is selected to lead this group in > the future (EC/PC/FC, Chair, and Council members) can find a way to raise > the percentage of active participants much further than this in subsequent > years. > > > > avri > > > > > > > > -- > > Alain Berranger, B.Eng, MBA > > http://www.jumo.com/ict4dk > > Executive-in-residence, Schulich School of Business, > www.schulich.yorku.ca > > Trustee, GKP Foundation, www.globalknowledgepartnership.org > > Vice Chair, Canadian Foundation for the Americas - www.focal.ca > > O:+1 514 484 7824; M:+1 514 704 7824 > > Skype: alain.berranger > > > -- Alain Berranger, B.Eng, MBA http://www.jumo.com/ict4dk Executive-in-residence, Schulich School of Business, www.schulich.yorku.ca Trustee, GKP Foundation, www.globalknowledgepartnership.org Vice Chair, Canadian Foundation for the Americas - www.focal.ca O:+1 514 484 7824; M:+1 514 704 7824 Skype: alain.berranger