A percentage is good. However, I think that one needs to specify if a quorum can include online participants and then how to carer for the voting... As the stats show, a large number of people voted, but might night have been present and a number of onsite votes were probably proxies (although that would count towards a quorum)
-----Original Message----- From: Dewole Ajao [mailto:dew...@tinitop.com] Sent: 28 September 2016 09:56 AM To: General Discussions of AFRINIC <community-discuss@afrinic.net> Subject: Re: [Community-Discuss] Accountability assessment - quorum Is hard-wiring the numbers really a good idea as opposed to a percentage (of something or the other)? Just thinking of a way to fix the quorum even if active membership were to double in a year or two. Dewole. On 28/09/2016 07:58, Alan Barrett wrote: >> On 26 Sep 2016, at 22:00, Alan Barrett <alan.barr...@afrinic.net> wrote: >> >> >>> On 26 Sep 2016, at 18:22, Douglas Onyango <ondoug...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Alan, >>>> The current quorum requirement is 10 members, which is too small, but I think 10% is too large. >>> Perhaps AFRINIC can share with us statistics on member attendance in >>> the past 5 years. We can normalize this data and can use something >>> like the lowest or average number of members present to prescribe a >>> pragmatic number for our quorum requirement. >> Sure, I can get those numbers. > Here are the number of votes cast during recent Board elections. The number of on-site votes gives a good idea of the number of members who attended the meetings. > > 2013 2014 2015 2016 > E-Votes 58 59 49 183 > On-Site Votes 45 66 77 62 > TOTAL 103 125 126 245 > > Given these attendance figures, I suggest a quorum requirement of 30 resource members in the future. > > Alan > _______________________________________________ > Community-Discuss mailing list > Community-Discuss@afrinic.net > https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss _______________________________________________ Community-Discuss mailing list Community-Discuss@afrinic.net https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss _______________________________________________ Community-Discuss mailing list Community-Discuss@afrinic.net https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss