[Lnc-business] Upcoming LNC Meeting - previous notice requirements, agenda item requests, and reports

[Joshua Katz]

Small suggestion - I'm interested in these details, and assume others are
as well.  I also assume many are not.  Maybe it would be useful to assemble
those who want to discuss the details on a group email off-list?  Kind of
the informal and online version of creating a committee and referring.  In
that spirit, I'll send you my thoughts on what you wrote.



Joshua A. Katz
Westbrook CT Planning Commission (L in R seat)


On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Daniel Wiener <wiener at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> In case my earlier email was missed, I again request an agenda item
> (probably for 30 minutes) to discuss electronic conferencing procedures.
> The purpose of this agenda item is to comply with the objectives of the new
> Article 13 in the Bylaws:
>
> *Boards and committees may conduct business by teleconference or
> videoconference. The National Committee shall have power to adopt special
> rules of order and standing rules to facilitate the conduct of business by
> teleconference or videoconference.*
>
> Rules which need to be defined include:
>
>
>    - Who can call an electronic meeting: Presumably the Chair, but also
>    some percentage of the members of the committee.  The meetings should have
>    agenda items specified ahead of time and be limited to those items.
>    - How and when to schedule an electronic meeting:  Notification will
>    presumably be by email to all committee members.  How much advance notice
>    is needed?  Public notification should also be given, perhaps by a
>    combination of an email to LNC-Business and a listing somewhere on the
>    LP.ORG web site.  We may want to use something like Doodle.com (which
>    Scott Lieberman has previously suggested) to facilitate the scheduling of a
>    meeting.
>    - Who may attend meetings?  I'm inclined to say that only sustaining
>    LP members be allowed to listen in, unless the committee specifically
>    invites other individuals because of their relevance to an agenda item.
>     - Specify the essential tasks of the meeting organizer or
>    facilitator: Handle the technical aspects of setting up the teleconference
>    or videoconference; track who has joined the meeting; be able to mute or
>    cut out a participant if it becomes necessary; etc. (Help me fill in the
>    "etc.")
>    - Require that there be a secretary to take the minutes of the
>    meeting, and that the meeting itself be recorded (audio at the least, and
>    video if possible) and archived.  In the case of non-LNC meetings, specify
>    the procedure for approving the minutes and making them (and the
>    recordings?) available on the LP.ORG web site.
>
>
> *PLEASE ADD ANY IDEAS YOU MAY HAVE FOR THE ABOVE AND SEND THEM TO THIS
> LIST. * I'd like to at least rough out a Policy Manual motion prior to
> the LNC meeting.
>
> Once we've defined these procedures, I would also like us to proceed with
> some test cases.  We've already done teleconferencing for Executive
> Committee meetings, so the next step would be video conferencing trials for
> some committees.  A few of the services worth looking into include
> http://gotomeeting.com <http://www.gotomeeting.com>,
> http://fuzemeeting.com, http://lifesize.com, http://bluejeans.com,
> http://polycom.com, http://readytalk.com, powwownow.com, http://webex.com.
> They all offer free trials.
>
> For those people who don't have web cameras built into their computers,
> they are available very inexpensively these days.  For example, Amazon
> offers a Gigaware high-definition (HD)  webcam with microphone for $14
> including shipping (http://tinyurl.com/lfgsly4); or a TeckNet HD webcam
> with microphone for $14 including shipping (http://tinyurl.com/mdks2qr);
> or, if you want to go super cheap, a Fosmon webcam (no microphone) for $7 (
> http://tinyurl.com/mpxvopb).
>
> Dan Wiener
>
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Nicholas Sarwark <chair at lp.org> wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>> A reminder that if you intend to introduce a motion at the upcoming
>> LNC meeting with previous notice, you'll need to send complete
>> language of any such motion to the LNC business list no later than
>> September 6, 2014.
>>
>> If you would like an item added to the agenda for the meeting, please
>> send me an email with the agenda item, a brief description, and the
>> time you are requesting.  The agenda is of course amendable at the
>> meeting, but everything will go more smoothly and quickly if most
>> items are included in the proposed agenda.
>>
>> I will distribute a proposed agenda to the LNC no later than September
>> 13, 2014.  I would ask that any written reports from regional
>> representatives and officers be sent by that date as well to ensure
>> all members have sufficient time to review them prior to the in-person
>> meeting.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Nick
>>
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