Subject: Re: SystemVerilog Voting Rules - Correction
From: Dave Kelf (davek@co-design.com)
Date: Fri Mar 22 2002 - 05:35:59 PST
I think the rule you pointed out Cliff is more fair. As it was approved,
lets go with this.
I have kept the master schedule updated as much as possible. Not sure why
this early meeting might have been missed - its a bit difficult when
several people take the minutes. I will fix this as well.
At 04:38 PM 3/21/2002 -0800, Clifford E. Cummings wrote:
>At 08:07 PM 3/18/02 +0100, Vassilios.Gerousis@Infineon.Com wrote:
>>We have two proposals that we will vote to include people who were not on
>>the phone. Please understand that voting is only for people who attended
>>the last 3 out of four consecutive meetings. Please look at the minutes
>>and see if you qualify. This includes today's meeting.
>
>WRONG!
>
>> Please send your votes by Wednesday , March 20, at the latest.
>> If accepted, it will
>>be included in the next LRM draft planned for Friday or earlier.
>>
>>Vassilios
>
>A meeting planned on short notice and the vote dismissed within two days???
>
>Per our minutes of January 28th:
>
>At 01:30 PM 1/28/02 -0500, Tom Fitzpatrick wrote:
>>Verilog++ 16th Committee Meeting
>>January 28th, 2002
>>
>>Vassilios leading. TomF taking minutes. Action Items highlighted.
>
>. . .
>
>>Simon suggested Vassilios and Dennis need to determine voting rules
>>Cliff proposed that anyone who attended 3 of last 4 or 75% of meetings
>>overall be eligible to vote.
>>Simon seconded.
>>Approved unanimously.
>>
>>Voting prodedure ammended to allow proxy representation.
>>Proposed - Mike McNamara
>>Seconded - Cliff
>>Approved unanimously
>
>One meeting was planned during the best technical conference of the year.
>At that meeting, a second meeting was planned on three days notice.
>Proposals that I have been working on for months are going to be dismissed
>this easily?
>
>We agreed to 3 out of the last 4 meetings to give new serious committee
>members a chance to vote and make a difference. We agreed to 75% of the
>overall meetings to give long-time contributors who happen to have more
>than one conflict in a recent 4-meeting period to still retain voting
>eligibility.
>
>Perhaps we should have established rules about eligible meetings (meetings
>scheduled with adequate notice to permit committee members the opportunity
>to make reasonable arrangements to attend or be represented by proxy).
>
>PROPOSAL: Eligible meetings must be scheduled with two weeks notice. Other
>meetings can be held but voting eligibility to be determined by attendance
>at eligible meetings.
>
>I have put in 100's of hours into developing and testing examples, writing
>proposals, and attending every meeting possible. If my vote is invalidated
>over someone who just joined the group and attended 3 out of the last 4
>meetings, I will be quite upset.
>
>- Cliff
>
>BTW - I did attend the first face-to-face meeting last year. This was
>corrected in the minutes once but apparently the master attendance sheet
>was not updated because I have noticed that my attendance is again missing.
>//*****************************************************************//
>// Cliff Cummings Phone: 503-641-8446 //
>// Sunburst Design, Inc. FAX: 503-641-8486 //
>// 14314 SW Allen Blvd. E-mail: cliffc@sunburst-design.com //
>// PMB 501 Web: www.sunburst-design.com //
>// Beaverton, OR 97005 //
>// //
>// Expert Verilog, Synthesis and Verification Training //
>//*****************************************************************//
______________________________
Dave Kelf
VP Marketing
Co-Design Automation, Inc.
Tel: 1 877 6 CODESIGN ext 404
Mobile: 1 617 571 9883
Fax: 1 781 662 2281
Email: davek@co-design.com
Web: www.co-design.com
www.superlog.org
Latest News:
http://www.co-design.com/news/index.htm
"Faster, Smarter Verilog"
______________________________
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b28 : Fri Mar 22 2002 - 06:27:00 PST