[governance] Reminder: What is the proposed Charter Amendment

[Hartmut Richard Glaser]

I vote => YES

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Ginger Paque wrote:
> 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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