[governance] IGC Workshop 56 urgent

[Avri Doria]

Hi,

I would also like to point out that it was an open meeting and anyone could participate either remotely on in person.

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On 29 Jun 2010, at 17:49, Roland Perry wrote:

> In message <9E87063B-9CB3-4586-BAAC-8110C8BA9665 at ciroap.org>, at 18:00:01 on Tue, 29 Jun 2010, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org> writes
>> On a procedural issue, I think we can suggest some improvements to this
>> process whereby the fate of a workshop depends on a decision made in
>> the room, even if the workshop proponents are not available.
> 
> The decisions were made on the basis of the proposals filed (some time ago) with the secretariat, with quite clear deadlines. That's a 100% "remote participation" exercise.
> 
> All that happened in the room today, was some special pleading which allowed a few workshops, whose proposals didn't meet the well known criteria, to be given a reprieve.
> 
> At the last count, that resulted in 96 sessions, well above the number that was hoped for. And there are quite a few qualifying proposals "missing in action" that will add to that. Nine parallel streams, plus the main sessions.
> 
> Unlike last year, there were relatively few "forced marriages" between two similar workshops. Most of that (for some of the themes anyway) was done at the *previous* meeting.
> -- 
> Roland Perry
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