On Mon, Jul 22, 2013, at 11:58 AM, Chris Radek wrote: > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 11:47:36AM -0400, John Kasunich wrote: > > By default, the tabled items from the last meeting should > > be copied to the new agenda. Tabling an item should > > not cause it to disappear. > > I don't agree this should happen by default, since if an item is > tabled because there was not enough information or discussion about > it previously, and no more has happened since, there's little point > to bringing it up forever. These would tend to accumulate.
I see this a "human factors" thing. If we don't like a proposal and want it to go away, then we should have the courage to vote it away. Tabling a topic should carry an implied promise to have the neccessary discussion and resume the topic at a later date. If that means that proposals start to accumulate, good. The accumulation will motiviate people to have the discussion and resolve them one way or the other. If tabling a proposal has the effect of making it disappear, then tabling will be percieved by the proposer as a tacit rejection of the proposal, rather than a way to allow time for more discussion. The meetings were proposed in part to dispel the percecption that "the old boys club rejects new ideas". If tabling an idea makes it disappear, that perception will not go away. > But please, by all means, add anything you like to the agenda, > especially if you feel strongly about one of the things that was > tabled previously and you want to take on the task of promoting it. I don't have strong opinions about any of the items (I wasn't at the last meeting because I was hiking in the mountains of Kentucky, so I don't really even know what was discussed.) I do feel somewhat strongly that items should remain on the agenda until the membership explicitly either approves or rejects them. I just added that to the agenda. -- John Kasunich jmkasun...@fastmail.fm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
