<div dir="ltr"><div>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:<br>
<br><div style="margin-left:40px"><b>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.</b><br>
</div><br></div>Rules which need to be defined include:<br><br><ul><li>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.<br>
</li><li>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 <a href="http://LP.ORG" target="_blank">LP.ORG</a> web site. We may want to use something like Doodle.com (which Scott Lieberman has previously suggested) to facilitate the scheduling of a meeting.</li>
<li>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.<br>
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<li>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.")</li>
<li>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 <a href="http://LP.ORG" target="_blank">LP.ORG</a> web site.</li>
</ul><div><br></div><div><b>PLEASE ADD ANY IDEAS YOU MAY HAVE FOR THE ABOVE AND SEND THEM TO THIS LIST. </b> I'd like to at least rough out a Policy Manual motion prior to the LNC meeting.<br></div><div><br>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 <a href="http://www.gotomeeting.com" target="_blank">http://gotomeeting.com</a>, <a href="http://fuzemeeting.com" target="_blank">http://fuzemeeting.com</a>, <a href="http://lifesize.com" target="_blank">http://lifesize.com</a>, <a href="http://bluejeans.com" target="_blank">http://bluejeans.com</a>, <a href="http://polycom.com">http://polycom.com</a>, <a href="http://readytalk.com">http://readytalk.com</a>, <a href="http://powwownow.com">powwownow.com</a>, <a href="http://webex.com" target="_blank">http://webex.com</a>. They all offer free trials.<br>
<br></div><div>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 (<a href="http://tinyurl.com/lfgsly4">http://tinyurl.com/lfgsly4</a>); or a TeckNet HD webcam with microphone for $14 including shipping (<a href="http://tinyurl.com/mdks2qr">http://tinyurl.com/mdks2qr</a>); or, if you want to go super cheap, a Fosmon webcam (no microphone) for $7 (<a href="http://tinyurl.com/mpxvopb">http://tinyurl.com/mpxvopb</a>).<br>
<br></div><div>Dan Wiener<br>
</div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Nicholas Sarwark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chair@lp.org" target="_blank">chair@lp.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">All,<br>
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A reminder that if you intend to introduce a motion at the upcoming<br>
LNC meeting with previous notice, you'll need to send complete<br>
language of any such motion to the LNC business list no later than<br>
September 6, 2014.<br>
<br>
If you would like an item added to the agenda for the meeting, please<br>
send me an email with the agenda item, a brief description, and the<br>
time you are requesting. The agenda is of course amendable at the<br>
meeting, but everything will go more smoothly and quickly if most<br>
items are included in the proposed agenda.<br>
<br>
I will distribute a proposed agenda to the LNC no later than September<br>
13, 2014. I would ask that any written reports from regional<br>
representatives and officers be sent by that date as well to ensure<br>
all members have sufficient time to review them prior to the in-person<br>
meeting.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Nick<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><font size="1"><i>"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.<font><b> If it disagrees with experiment, it’s WRONG. In that simple statement is the key to science.</b></font> 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.”</i> -- Richard Feynman</font><br>
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