[Lnc-business] Proposed Policy Manual addition regarding electronic meetings

Daniel Wiener wiener at alum.mit.edu
Sun Sep 14 10:37:17 EDT 2014 

It isn't a motion yet till we get to the meeting.  If you have suggestions
or criticisms, fire away.  I'm always open to the theoretical possibility
that my ideas aren't perfect, however far-fetched that may seem.

Dan

On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 5:50 AM, Joshua Katz <planning4liberty at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Is it appropriate to offer comments on this motion at this time?
>
> Joshua Katz
> On Sep 14, 2014 2:30 AM, "Daniel Wiener" <wiener at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> I like some but not all of Dan Karlan’s suggestions for videoconference
>> and teleconference procedures.  So here is my proposed draft of a Policy
>> Manual amendment, to be considered at our upcoming meeting.  Remember,
>> we can always modify our procedures as we learn from experience.
>>
>>
>> Daniel Wiener
>>
>>
>>
>> Add a new *Section 1.02(7) Electronic Meetings:*
>>
>>
>>  *Pursuant to Article 13 of the LP Bylaws, the LNC and all committees of
>> the national party may conduct meetings via videoconference or
>> teleconference (“e-conference”) according to the following rules:*
>>
>>
>>
>>    - *For videoconferences, it is the responsibility of committee member
>>    to provide their own compatible equipment.  In the temporary absence of the
>>    necessary equipment, or in the case of technical difficulties, a committee
>>    member must be allowed to participate by teleconference.  To the extent
>>    that it is technically feasible, meetings shall be open to all Libertarian
>>    Party sustaining members to listen in on, but those members must first
>>    identify themselves and their phone numbers to the person acting as
>>    secretary, and their status must be verified prior to the meeting.  By a
>>    majority vote a committee may allow a non-committee member to participate
>>    on a limited basis.*
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>    - *Either the committee chair or one-third of the committee members
>>    may call for an e-conference.  A minimum of seven (7) days notice for such
>>    a meeting, along with the agenda, shall be provided to all committee
>>    members by email, and shall also be reposted on the LNC-Business list.  No
>>    item of business may be placed on or added to the agenda unless all
>>    committee members have access to the same supporting documentation.*
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>    - *Participants must try to eliminate background noise, including
>>    radio, television, traffic, appliances, and side conversations, as well as
>>    call waiting for those who have it. A participants shall not place a
>>    telephone on hold if the system has music or messages playing while in that
>>    mode.  Failure to do any of the above, or to otherwise mute the sound when
>>    a participant isn’t talking, shall be grounds for dropping the participant
>>    from the e-conference.*
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>    - *Each committee member shall be given an opportunity to speak at
>>    least once on each agenda item, but a member may defer until others have
>>    had an opportunity to speak.  If the technical means are available, members
>>    may signal to the committee chair their desire to speak.  The committee
>>    chair may choose the order to call on members.  The default time limit for
>>    each speaker shall be three minutes, but a different limit, applicable
>>    equally to all speakers, may be specified either in the agenda material
>>    prior to the meeting or by a majority of the committee.  An individual
>>    speaker’s time may be extended by unanimous consent.  Seconding a motion
>>    and similar parliamentary matters shall not require recognition, and shall
>>    not deprive a member of the opportunity to speak substantively on an agenda
>>    item.  *
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>    - *The chair may choose a voting method which will clearly and
>>    efficiently determine the outcome.  In cases where a roll call vote is
>>    required, it shall be sufficient if the voting method can accurately
>>    identify how each committee member voted and allow that information to be
>>    recorded.*
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>    - *A person (normally the Party Secretary in the case of an LNC or
>>    Executive Committee meeting) shall be appointed to perform the secretarial
>>    function who is not also the person chairing the meeting.*
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>    - *Barring technical difficulties and excepting Executive Sessions,
>>    e-conferences shall be recorded.  The audio (and, if practical, the video)
>>    shall be archived and linked to on the LP website.  All individuals
>>    attending an e-conference must agree to be so recorded, and also agree not
>>    to record and not to divulge the contents of Executive Sessions unless the
>>    committee allows it by unanimous consent.  Individuals who do not agree to
>>    these conditions shall be excluded from the e-conference.*
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> *"In general, we look for a new law by the following process. First, we
>> guess it (audience laughter), no, don’t laugh, that’s the truth. Then we
>> compute the consequences of the guess, to see what, if this is right, if
>> this law we guess is right, to see what it would imply and then we compare
>> the computation results to nature or we say compare to experiment or
>> experience, compare it directly with observations to see if it works. If it
>> disagrees with experiment, it’s WRONG. In that simple statement is the key
>> to science. It doesn’t make any difference how beautiful your guess is, it
>> doesn’t matter how smart you are, who made the guess, or what his name is.
>> If it disagrees with experiment, it’s wrong. That’s all there is to it.”*
>> -- Richard Feynman
>>
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-- 
*"In general, we look for a new law by the following process. First, we
guess it (audience laughter), no, don’t laugh, that’s the truth. Then we
compute the consequences of the guess, to see what, if this is right, if
this law we guess is right, to see what it would imply and then we compare
the computation results to nature or we say compare to experiment or
experience, compare it directly with observations to see if it works. If it
disagrees with experiment, it’s WRONG. In that simple statement is the key
to science. It doesn’t make any difference how beautiful your guess is, it
doesn’t matter how smart you are, who made the guess, or what his name is.
If it disagrees with experiment, it’s wrong. That’s all there is to it.”*
-- Richard Feynman
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