Content Committee Page

See Content Committee Page 2/26/2010 for last meeting's minutes Content Committee's Portal 3/1/2010 - 1st Official Content Committee meeting. In today's online call, the following content committee members were present: Diane Joiner, Stephen Press, Eileen McGinn, and Greg Miller (ex officio).

Election of Chairman
On Friday, after the call, Greg emailed Stephen a lengthy email list of people who have participated in providing content, in order to include them all in the voting process. Stephen immediately sent an email inviting all to do so at the Content Committee Page. By today, 3/1/2010 there were no dissenting votes, and as Chair, pro tem, during the official meeting online, Stephen asked if there were any further nominations; hearing none, he requested a Motion to close the nominations. Greg made the motion and Diane seconded. The Motion was called and as there were no dissenting votes, is was agreed that Stephen was elected as Chairman of the Content Committee by unanimous consent.

Next meeting
The next official meeting of the Content committee will take place on Monday, 3/15/2010, at 2:00PM by phone conference call as usual. Call in Number : 712-775-7000 Passcode : 634011#

The rest of the meeting
The time was devoted to explanation of the Specialty portal that Stephen prepared over the weekend. This gives a portal for each medical specialty, and required all existing articles about conditions to be re categorized; which Stephen undertook to accomplish over the weekend as well.

Also Vincent promised to find time to get the Wiki updated, at least on the new server, so the various extensions and plug-ins can be tested before the database in migrated. Once this is accomplished, then all templates will work in OurMed Articles copied from Wikipedia.

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)

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.

Signed: Savealife 21:40, 1 March 2010 (UTC)