Content Committee Page 2/26/2010

See Content Committee Page - Current Content Committee's Portal 2/26/2010 - Preliminary Content Committee meeting. In today's online call, the following content committee members were present: Diane Joiner, Stephen Press, Richard Knipel, John Volpe, Eileen McGinn, Elise Passikoff, Soo Cee Lee, and Greg Miller (ex officio).

It is un-necessary to repeat the thorough job Greg did in reporting those minutes, but a consensus was reached inasmuch as a process was suggested by Stephen to form a functional committee. Stephen proffered himself as Chairman, pro tem, for the purpose of organizing the committee. It was discussed that Stephen is a Physician practicing Chiropractic, and there was some discussion as to how that might affect his impartiality as a Chairperson. Stephen countered that he had been Chairman of several International medical commissions, including eminent medical and scientific authorities, and saw his role as exactly that, Chairman, not opinion maker. A vote was taken online and there having been no dissenting votes, Stephen is functioning as Chair, pro tem, pending elections here, to be finalized at the next, (first official) meeting of the Content Committee.

Next meeting
The first official meeting of the Content committee will take place on Monday, 3/1/2010, at 2:00PM by phone conference call as usual. Call in Number : 712-775-7000 Passcode : 634011#

Election of Chairperson
First order of business therefore is the election of a Chairperson. Stephen was seated, pro tem, and there is a request for any other members of the content committee to enter a vote here. (to do so, please simply enter the edit mode for this page, click on the wikitext button and scroll down to this line. Then type Yay, or Nay, (to see how to type this, look at it in the edit mode), followed by four tildes (~) (found in upper left key of your keyboard) to sign your vote: (please type your votes below this line, and sign with four ~'s) NOTE 1: If you wish to nominate another person to be chair, please also do so here. NOTE 2: unsigned votes will not be tabulated. 

Term of Office
Any discussion as to an initial term for Chair? (please type your comments below this line, and sign with four ~'s)

Who should be eligible to vote in committee meetings?
After the conference call, in a discussion with Greg, Stephen suggested that one way to reduce opposition among open structure advocates is to allow all established editors a vote in any committee who's meeting they choose to attend. The obverse of this is, of course that if you are not present, you are also disenfranchised. The solution to that issue is therefore to have an online forum, like this page, where members can vote on outstanding issues.

Is there a motion from the floor to establish a this, or another plan to tabulate votes? (please type your comments below this line, and sign with four ~'s)

Sample Main Page
Created a sample for a change in the main page, per the concept put forth by Greg at our Phone meeting on Friday, 26th. Please see my further explanation on the [| Discussion page]

Other business
If you have another matter to vote on, or a motion to enter, please do so on the [| Discussion page] for this article.

Yay (D Joiner) signed with four underscores instead of tildes