<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"><b><span>Dear All IGC Members,</span></b></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"><b><span>I am not sure about my position to comment on the Election being a candidate of a running one, but just for clarity, I would like to quote the following points:</span></b></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"><b><span><br></span></b></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"><b><span>1.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>under the section of "Selection of Coordinators" an example </span></b></font><b style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial;"><span>followed for 2006, </span></b><b style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial;"><span>is recorded in the charter:</span></b></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:
rgb(61, 61, 61); font-family: Arial, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(61, 61, 61); font-family: Arial, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>"....(Note: as a boot strap procedure for 2006, the interim coordinator will serve until the end of the first election period, </span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(61, 61, 61); font-family: Arial, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>during which two <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>coordinators will be selected - one for one (1) year and one for two (2) years)."</span></div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><b style="font-family: Arial;"><span>Avri is right that it is not included in the Charter that who
will serve for one (1) year and who will serve for two (2) years.</span></b></div><div dir="ltr"><b style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">However, this matter was also pointed out by the Ian Peter in his email on 3th Nov, along with a valid solution: </b></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"><b><span><br></span></b></font></div><div dir="ltr"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: 10pt; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">"....My suggestion is that everyone gets to vote for two candidates. The person </span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>with most votes serves a two year term, the person with second most votes </div><div dir="ltr"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>serves a one year term - to get us back into rotation. I think that is a </div><div dir="ltr"><span class="Apple-tab-span"
style="white-space:pre"> </span>correct reading of the situation given the year in which the resignation </div><div dir="ltr"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>was received......"</div><div><br></div></div><div class="y_msg_container"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3"><b style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial;"><span>May we invite other IGC Members to comment, either they agree or propose any other method, and just to establish a "</span></b></font><span style="color: rgb(61, 61, 61); font-family: Arial, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">rough consensus</span><b style="font-family: Arial;">"</b><b style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><span> before the the end of the election. We may include this point for the future discussion about charter amendment.</span></b></div><div class="y_msg_container"><b style="font-size:
10pt; font-family: Arial;"><span><br></span></b></div><div class="y_msg_container"><b style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><span>Regards</span></b></div><div class="y_msg_container"><b style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><span><br></span></b></div><div class="y_msg_container"><b style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><span>Imran Ahmed Shah </span></b></div><div class="y_msg_container"><br></div><div></div><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> McTim <dogwallah@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">To:</span></b> "governance@lists.igcaucus.org" <governance@lists.igcaucus.org>; Avri Doria <avri@acm.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, 26 January 2014, 6:34<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [governance] Voting and term length<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>seems reasonable to me<br clear="none"><div class="yqt6944102217" id="yqtfd18101"><br clear="none">On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 6:40 PM, Avri Doria <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:avri@acm.org" href="mailto:avri@acm.org">avri@acm.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">> Hi,<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> I just voted and wondered:<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> I may have missed the discussion/explanation.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Have we decided how we reset the every other year cycle of coordinators set<br clear="none">> in charter?<br
clear="none">><br clear="none">> Do we give the first place finisher the 2 year term and the second place<br clear="none">> finisher a 1 year term?<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Or?<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> avri<br clear="none">><br clear="none">><br clear="none">> ____________________________________________________________<br clear="none">> You received this message as a subscriber on the list:<br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org" href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a><br clear="none">> To be removed from the list, visit:<br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" href="http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing" target="_blank">http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing</a><br clear="none">><br clear="none">> For all other list information and functions, see:<br
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