Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of CharterAndBylaws
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- 10/13/15 21:40:20 (9 years ago)
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v2 v3 25 25 * one ex-officio member who is a member of the Regenstrief Institute, Inc., the Regenstrief Institute, Inc. being the Copyright holder of UCUM along with the UCUM Organization. 26 26 * the Founders, Gunther Schadow and Clem McDonald, are members of the board until their resignation. 27 8. '''Secretary:''' -- volunteers or employees of organizational volunteers who offer clerical and organizational management services to the UCUM organization are recognized as secretaries. A secretary may be given administrator privileges on the web site. Secretary is a title recognized and granted by the Board of Advisors, who may elect and remove secretaries. A secretary is not automatically an ex-officio member of the Board of Advisors and has no voting privileges. 27 8. '''Secretary:''' volunteers or employees of organizational volunteers who offer clerical and organizational management services to the UCUM organization are recognized as secretaries. A secretary may be given administrator privileges on the web site. Secretary is a title recognized and granted by the Board of Advisors, who may elect and remove secretaries. A secretary is not automatically an ex-officio member of the Board of Advisors and has no voting privileges. 28 9. '''Editor:''' are members with write access to the UCUM specification repository and the ability to apply changes to the UCUM specification and the publishing of updated versions. Editors are added or removed by the Board of Advisors and must be board members or secretaries. 28 29 29 30 == Decision Making == … … 37 38 All decisions are made by the Board of Advisors by simple majority. 38 39 39 '''Decisions which alter the structure or bylaws of the organization ''' must be made with at least the chairman of the board, one ex-officio member present and two other board members voting (not abstaining) in a real time discussion via telephone or per discussion convened electronically on the web site. All members of the Board of Advisors must be notified with motions to change bylaws or organization submitted in writing on the web site at least 30 days prior to the voting.40 '''Decisions which alter the structure or bylaws of the organization or grant roles such as secretaries and editors''' must be made with at least the chairman of the board, one ex-officio member present and two other board members voting (not abstaining) in a real time discussion via telephone or per discussion convened electronically on the web site. All members of the Board of Advisors must be notified with motions to change bylaws or organization submitted in writing on the web site at least 30 days prior to the voting. 40 41 41 '''Technical Decisions :''' are made on tickets by at least 2 board members documenting assent to the proposal. When only one board member engages in the adjudication and no other board member weighs in in opposition, the decision of the single member may be implemented. However, decisions by a single member cannot bind the UCUM Organization to implement this decision if the single member so deciding does not himself implement the decision.42 '''Technical Decisions''' are made on tickets by at least 2 board members documenting assent to the proposal. When only one board member engages in the adjudication and no other board member weighs in in opposition, the decision of the single member may be implemented. However, decisions by a single member cannot bind the UCUM Organization to implement this decision if the single member so deciding does not himself implement the decision. 42 43 43 44 All technical decisions are made on a ticket which may be submitted by any Member of the UCUM organization (even non-verified new members). A ticket must be accepted by a board members to be turned into action. Any verified member can comment on tickets by commenting on the ticket. Board members can decide on the ticket status. … … 60 61 61 62 The web site can be used to create ticket reports. The "timeline" function of the web site, and most ticket information can only be seen by registered users, this is necessary and highly effective to prevent ticket spam, i.e., by removing the pay-off for a spammer to place spam tickets: links they place in their spam tickets will not end up on search engines. 63 64 == Specification == 65 66 The UCUM specification's source code is maintained in a Subversion (SVN) repository. Write access to the Subversion repository is granted to editors who can apply changes to the specification and produce a new release.
