Ultimately percentage of members is the logical and sustainble way to achieve a representative outcome. However this opens another question when it comes to “representative” and actual votes.
We need to explore a way that also addresses actively engaged member views. The current system is open to some kind of abuse where through the use of proxies, votes are cast on behalf of members who might not even have a clue about what the vote is all about. We have all noticed this in previous elections so I think we need to start putting our minds round how to find a solution. Regards On 9/28/16, 8:55 AM, "Dewole Ajao" <dew...@tinitop.com> wrote: >Is hard-wiring the numbers really a good idea as opposed to a percentage >(of something or the other)? > >Just thinking of a way to fix the quorum even if active membership were >to double in a year or two. > >Dewole. > > >On 28/09/2016 07:58, Alan Barrett wrote: >>> On 26 Sep 2016, at 22:00, Alan Barrett <alan.barr...@afrinic.net> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> On 26 Sep 2016, at 18:22, Douglas Onyango <ondoug...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi Alan, >>>>> The current quorum requirement is 10 members, which is too small, but I >>>>> think 10% is too large. >>>> Perhaps AFRINIC can share with us statistics on member attendance in >>>> the past 5 years. We can normalize this data and can use something >>>> like the lowest or average number of members present to prescribe a >>>> pragmatic number for our quorum requirement. >>> Sure, I can get those numbers. >> Here are the number of votes cast during recent Board elections. The number >> of on-site votes gives a good idea of the number of members who attended the >> meetings. >> >> 2013 2014 2015 2016 >> E-Votes 58 59 49 183 >> On-Site Votes 45 66 77 62 >> TOTAL 103 125 126 245 >> >> Given these attendance figures, I suggest a quorum requirement of 30 >> resource members in the future. >> >> Alan >> _______________________________________________ >> Community-Discuss mailing list >> Community-Discuss@afrinic.net >> https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss > > >_______________________________________________ >Community-Discuss mailing list >Community-Discuss@afrinic.net >https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss _______________________________________________ Community-Discuss mailing list Community-Discuss@afrinic.net https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss
