WikiEducator:Community Council/Meetings/Second/Ratifying Open Community Governance Policy

Draft concept for motion

1. Since business has already conducted and being conducted based on the existing draft policy the WCC may ratify the Draft Open Community Governance Policy to give it an interim Open Community Governance Policy status with the following amendments/typo/minor corrections:
   1. In section 5.3 of the draft policy, under the title Executive Secretary the wording The Executive Secretary shall not be counted as a member of the Executive Committee and will not have voting rights on the Executive Committee may be amended as The Executive Secretary shall have ex officio status on the Executive Committee. An Executive Secretary who is not a member of Council will not have voting rights nor be counted under the required numbers of the Executive Committee
   2. add here any other typo/minor corrections/minor amendments as being discussed in the general discussion page
2. The WCC may also decide on constituting a Workgroup as given below to invite and examine amendement proposals, rework the policy (wherever necessary) and place it in the next WCC.

please add here the details of proposed work group

Discussion

• Introduction by Chair pro tem: The WikiEducator Council is constituted in terms of the Draft Open Community Governance Policy and was the basis for electing and nominating the members of Council. The purpose of this agenda item is to consider a motion to ratify the policy. In addition, Council may want to consider proposals for amendments. For pragmatic reasons, I would recommend that Council members consider tabling suggestions for amendments as a separate motion and to consider the establishment of a Workgroup for community discussion and development of any proposed amendments. The Workgroup proposal for policy & guidelines for the Constitution of Community Workgroups (Item 3 of the current agenda) would, if approved, provide a robust community process for discussing and considering amendments to the Community Governance Policy as a designated Council workgroup. I invite members from the floor to consider drafting a motion for ratifying the community policy. --Wayne Mackintosh 21:50, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
• Hi Anil good suggestion to qualify the ratification of the policy taking into account the proposed amendments. Thinking ahead here ... as Council members table suggestions for amendments to the policy the motion above to ratify may become cluttered. Perhaps we can save space and potential confusion by proposing the ratification of the policy subject to the outcome of the decisions under the motion for amendments with a link to the corresponding motion ... Thoughts? --Wayne Mackintosh 07:44, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

Dear Dr. Wayne,

Since business has already conducted and being conducted based on the existing draft policy, we may place the draft as such to:

• Give it an interim policy status by the full council (with the simple amendment on executive secretary)
• Decide to constitute work groups to invite & consider suggestions and rework the interim policy.

No constitution is going to be final and complete as generations change <smile> therefore waiting for a final may be futile. -- Anil Prasad 09:06, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

You're very right -- in the wiki world everything is a draft :-) That gives us the agility to respond to changes with lightening speed! I think that there will still be other amendments that Council may propose -- lets see what our team suggests. --Wayne Mackintosh 09:36, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

I agree with you Wayne and Anil. Let us place the draft as an Interim Policy (with amendment on exec secretary) - if necessary, we could look at it again before we conduct elections next time. savi 18:23, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

• Reading the proposed wording of the current draft "The Executive Secretary shall have ex officio status and not be counted as a member of the Executive Committee ... " Wouldn't it be better to say "The Executive Secretary shall have ex officio status on the Executive Committee. An Executive Secretary who is not a member of Council will not have voting rights nor be counted under the required numbers of the Executive Committee" --- I think the current version of the proposed proposal is still ambiguous. --Wayne Mackintosh 04:43, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

DONE! ...incorporated in the draft motion. Anil Prasad 08:03, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

• Minor Points (moved from General Discussion Page)

Motion

WikiEducator Council move to ratify the Draft Open Community Governance Policy as the Interim Open Community Governance Policy with the following amendment:

• In section 5.3 of the draft policy, under the title Executive Secretary the wording The Executive Secretary shall not be counted as a member of the Executive Committee and will not have voting rights on the Executive Committee should be amended to:
  

The Executive Secretary shall have ex officio status on the Executive Committee. An Executive Secretary who is not a member of Council will not have voting rights nor be counted under the required numbers of the Executive Committee (Original draft by Anil Prasad)

Note: Discussions and suggestions for amendments are covered in a motion to establish a Community Workgroup tasked with discussing, updating and refining the Interim Open Community Governance Policy.

Second

I second the motion -- Anil Prasad 06:22, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

Voting

Approval

1. Anil Prasad 06:28, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
2. Valerie Taylor 06:34, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
3. savi 07:31, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
4. Bronwyn Hegarty 08:41, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
5. Pankaj 09:26, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
6. Kim Tucker 09:36, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
7. Christine Geith 10:57, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
8. Victor P. K. Mensah 12:35, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
9. Rob Kruhlak 15:55, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
10. Günther Osswald 18:51, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
11. Randy Fisher 21:22, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
12. Ioana Chan Mow 23:42,18 September 2009 (UTC)
13. Nellie Deutsch 05:12, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
14. Ahrash Bissell 05:33, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Abstention

1. SteveFoerster 14:39, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

Result

A majority of the Council has voted to approve this motion. This motion has been approved. (For the record --- additional votes are always welcome) -- --Wayne Mackintosh 23:05, 19 September 2009 (UTC)