[governance] Reminder: What is the proposed Charter Amendment

[Ginger Paque]

The short version of what you are voting on: If you vote Yes, you accept 
the following change (summary). If you vote No, you reject the proposal.

The proposed amendment contains the following elements:

- statement of the purpose of the IGC list
- set of guidelines for decorum on the IGC list and any other IGC
lists that may be created
- description of inappropriate postings for IGC list(s)

We are also proposing that the coordinators can create, if they
desire to do so, an advisory body to help them in determining when the
posting rules have been infringed.  The decision and responsibility
of when to take action is, however, still left with the coordinators.

If this charter amendment is accepted by a 2/3 vote of the current elegible
members, action for suspension of removal can be initiated in the
following manner:

a. the coordinators decide on their own that action needs to be taken
b. the advisory group recommends it to coordinators and they agree
that action needs to be taken
c. a group of 20 IGC members publicly petitions the coordinators to
consider action and the coordinators agree actions should be taken

The appeals mechanism remains the same as it is in the current
charter:

Any decision for suspension can be appealed.

Any decision to remove someone from the list will  call for an automatic 
appeal by the appeals team.
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