Changes between Version 6 and Version 7 of CharterAndBylaws

Timestamp:

11/13/15 18:14:10 (9 years ago)

Author:

gschadow

Comment:

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CharterAndBylaws

@@ -7 +7 @@
 == Stakeholder and Contributor Roles ==
 
-The UCUM Organization is a volunteer organizations that recognizes contributors based on their contribution to the mission of the Organization. The following roles are recognized.
+The UCUM Organization is a volunteer organization that recognizes contributors based on their contribution to the mission of the Organization. The following roles are recognized:
 
- 1. '''The Public:''' is everyone interested in UCUM, observers, users, etc. The public are not yet members but are eligible to become members of the UCUM Organization.
- 2. '''User of the Web Site:''' the UCUM work is centered around its web site unitsofmeasure.org. The published material is open for the public to view and download, etc. but in order to engage with proposals and discussions one must register as a member. To register go to the web site and search the word Register on the top menu or directly go to the URL http://unitsofmeasure.org/trac/register. Registered members may view and submit tickets. The chief process of interacting with the UCUM organization is through tickets.
- 3. '''Verified Contributor:''' someone who has contributed meaningfully with a proposal or thoughtful question (usually by submitting a relevant ticket) should be promoted to become a verified member. Promotion to verified member ''should'' be performed manually by a member with administrator privilege, and in the future automatically, whenever a reviewer of the user input determines the input as relevant, such as by accepting a ticket into consideration.
- 4. '''Board of Advisor:''' the decision making body of the UCUM Organization is the Board of Advisors (or in short "the board"). The Board of Advisors may elect other members to the board by a simple majority. The duties of a member of the Board of Advisors are to engage in the decision making process of the UCUM Organization. Decisions may be technical or organizational in nature. To be eligible to become a member of the Board of Advisor, an individual must 
+ 1. '''The Public:''' observers, users, or anyone with interest in UCUM. 
+ 2. '''User of the Web Site:''' the UCUM work is centered around its web site unitsofmeasure.org. The published material is open for the public to view and download, etc. But in order to engage with proposals and discussions one must register as a member. To register, go to the web site and search the word Register on the top menu or directly go to the URL http://unitsofmeasure.org/trac/register. Registered members may view and submit change requests, other suggestions or questions as tickets. The chief process of interacting with the UCUM organization is through tickets.
+ 3. '''Verified Contributor:''' someone who has contributed meaningfully with a proposal or thoughtful question (usually by submitting a relevant ticket) should be promoted to become a verified member. Promotion to verified member status ''should'' be performed manually by a member with administrator privileges.
+ 4. '''Board of Advisor:''' the decision making body of the UCUM Organization is the Board of Advisors (or in short "the Board"). The Board of Advisors may elect other members to the Board by a simple majority. The duties of a member of the Board of Advisors are to engage in the decision making process of the UCUM Organization. Decisions may be technical or organizational in nature. To be eligible to become a member of the Board of Advisor, an individual must:
   * have expertise in a relevant subject matter of units of measures
   * must understand the technical subject matter to be able to 
     * adjudicate changes and 
     * explain the technical reasoning behind changes. 
-  * must have been and continue to be supportive of UCUM
+  * must have been and continue to be supportive of UCUM, and
     * must promote and not undermine UCUM when being involved of competing activity
   A member of the Board of Advisors should be actively contributing commensurable to the actual activity of the UCUM Organization.
@@ -23 +23 @@
  6. '''Chairman of the Board:''' the Board of Advisers elects a Chairman of the Board. 
  7. '''Ex Officio and Honorary Board Member:''' the Board has 
-   * 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.
-   * the Founders, Gunther Schadow and Clem McDonald, are members of the board until their resignation.
+   * one ex-officio member who is a member of the Regenstrief Institute, Inc., which is the Copyright holder of UCUM along with the UCUM Organization.
+   * the Founders, Gunther Schadow and Clem McDonald, are members of the Board until their resignation.
  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 the role of Secretary confers no voting privileges.
  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.
@@ -33 +33 @@
 For this reason, the UCUM Organization is constituted as a light-weight organization.
 The central interaction device for all decision making is an active management web site, http://unitsofmeasure.org.
-Face to face or telephone meetings are held minimal.
+Face to face or telephone meetings are held minimally.
 There are no standing meetings.
 
 All decisions are made by the Board of Advisors by simple majority. 
 
-'''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.
+'''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.
 
-'''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. 
+'''Technical Decisions''' are made on tickets by at least two (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. 
 
 All technical decisions are made on a ticket which may be submitted by any user of the UCUM web site (even non-verified new users). A ticket must be accepted by a board member 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.
@@ -48 +48 @@
    * Possibly revising the category.
    * Drafting a quick excerpt of the essence of the request and proposes one of the determinations:
- 2. Accept, in which case the board member or secretary will be the owner and make a concrete change proposal to the specification. 
+ 2. Accept, in which case the Board member or secretary will be the owner and make a concrete change proposal to the specification. 
    * A ticket cannot be accepted without a concrete change proposal to the specification.
    * Other board members ''should'' review and opine to the change.
    * If the proposal was accepted by a secretary, at least one board member must approve the proposal.
- 3. Reject, in which case the board member or secretary will give a rationale to the proposal to reject. 
+ 3. Reject, in which case the Board member or secretary will give a rationale to the proposal to reject. 
    * The status of such tickets are "reject_proposed".
    * At least one other board member needs to agree with the rejection proposal, in which case the next status will be "wontfix" (will not change).
@@ -60 +60 @@
  4. Other statuses may exist to determine that the request is not actionable or doesn't identify a specific change need, is out of scope or suggests a problem that is not a real problem. These determinations can be made by one board member or secretary.
 
-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. 
+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. 
 
 == Specification ==