[MEI-L] future MEI Board

[Byrd, Donald A.]

On point 1, aiming for consensus is great, but surely voting will be 
necessary on occasion, so I think an odd number is preferable.

On point 2, I have no opinion.

On point 3, I think 6 elected representatives plus 
institution-appointed representatives is _plenty_ large! ISMIR is a 
fairly similar organization to I think what we're talking about. I was 
on the ISMIR Steering Committee until about 2008, with 8 or 9 members, 
I forget exactly, and that was already a bit cumbersome. And Perry's 
point about travel $$ makes sense.

--Don


On Fri, 13 Jun 2014 21:26:34 +0000, "Roland, Perry D. (pdr4h)" 
<pdr4h at eservices.virginia.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi Benni, everyone,
>
> On point 1 -- I have no preference since the normal modus operandi of
> the Board should be to arrive at decisions by consensus, not by
> voting.
>
> Regarding point 2 -- Again, I have no preference, but the role of the
> host institution representative should be spelled out.  Since
> decisions should be made by consensus, I hesitate to say that the
> host institution rep. should be a voting member.  I prefer something
> like -- "The host institution representative has the same rights in
> the decision-making process of the Board as other members."
>
> On point 3 -- I do have a preference for 6 elected members plus host
> institution-appointed representatives.  I think a 6-member Board can
> be more efficient.  Also, if we ever do get to the point of having
> resources to do so, reimbursing 6 people's travel expenses is
> cheaper.  :-)
>
> --
> p.
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mei-l [mailto:mei-l-bounces at lists.uni-paderborn.de] On Behalf Of
>> Benjamin Wolff Bohl
>> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2014 11:16 AM
>> To: Music Encoding Initiative
>> Subject: [MEI-L] future MEI Board
>>
>> Dear MEI-L::isteners,
>> the current proposal or MEI Community Organization isn't exactly clear
>> about how many members the future Board will have. This is due to the
>> fact that the discussion in Charlottesville wasn't totally explicit
>> about it.
>> At the moment there are three main issues that I would like to forward
>> to the community:
>>
>> 1) odd or even
>> In general do you prefer an odd or even number of voting board members?
>>
>> 2) Host Institution representative
>> In addition to any number of Board members elected from and by the
>> community, the proposal grants a seat to one member of every host
>> institution, designated by the respective institution. At the moment the
>> Academy will be the only Host Institution (Please be aware that this is
>> not about Institutional Membership and an institution can only have this
>> role in MEI on individual agreements with the Board).
>> The question connected to this is whether this designated member of the
>> Board should have equal rights concerning any decision making process of
>> the board, e.g. the right to vote in such decisions or have advisory
>> role only?
>>
>> 3) Number of elected Board members & terms
>> How many elected members should the Board have, and how long should
>> their terms be?
>> In general we decided on staggered/overlapping terms in order to have a
>> number of Board members be elected every year. The two proposed models
>> are:
>> a) 9 elected members serving for three years each, 3 members will be
>> elected each year
>> b) 6 elected members serving either for 2 or 3 years each, resulting in
>> 3 or 2 members being elected each year
>>
>> I'd be very happy to hear community opinions on this!
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Benjamin
>>
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Donald Byrd
Woodrow Wilson Indiana Teaching Fellow
Adjunct Associate Professor of Informatics
Visiting Scientist, Research Technologies
Indiana University Bloomington