[Bylaws] Process Re-visioning

[Amr Elsadr]

Hi,

I’m fine proceeding in any way this team sees fit. I will say though, that I liked Arun’s approach and timeline. It would at least create some momentum to build upon. My hope was that folks with opinions or input on any of the four topics listed by Arun (or even unidentified ones) would have been more likely to comment on an actively progressing project, rather than an attempt that’s been lying around for a couple of years.

I’ve always thought of the bylaws review as an iterative project anyway. Work through one chunk at a time, stop and rework previous sections as appropriate/necessary. Kind of comparing it to participatory design of information systems, where increasing the number of participants will increase the level of complexity, as well as the need for further work. 


But we need to start somewhere. This small team seemed like the logical place to get things going.

Like I said, though…, I’m fine with whatever folks here would like to do. As long as the work doesn’t stop…, again.

Thanks.

Amr

> On Aug 20, 2015, at 10:56 AM, Remmy Nweke <remmyn at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Good day all
> I think also the way forward is for the bylawyers to agree on a meeting day for member concern or highlighted concerns and we address this one after another and page by page with Arun leading the pack and direction, so that when we finish highlights we can now move on to highlights with special effects, that is those who need expansion or extra time for tweaking.
> 
> At Best we can actually handle highlights with special effects except where agreement becomes difficult and then move on untill we get to the last part/page.
> 
> It may actually take more than one meeting call at least for the bylawyers before we can open up for comments.
> Just me thing!
> Remmy Nweke
> @ITRealms
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> From: William Drake
> Sent: ‎20/‎08/‎2015 09:15
> To: NCUC Bylaws Revision Committee
> Subject: Re: [Bylaws] Process Re-visioning
> 
> Hi
> 
>> On Aug 20, 2015, at 8:22 AM, Arun Mohan Sukumar <arunmohan.s at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Bill, good points - you're right about the need to re-vision this into a holistic exercise. What can we do going ahead to ensure that there is momentum in completing this exercise, even if it is not bound to a strict timeline? As for the text, the letters in black seem identical to the actual charter, but I suppose the added text, even if in a different colour, may appear confusing to folks.
>> 
>> One way to go ahead with this is to open the call at the end of this month to all willing NCUC members and make it into a brainstorming exercise. Before we begin, i can present a list of barebones changes we ought to make for NCSG conformity --- and the discussion can go forward on larger review questions.
> 
> Sounds good to me.  I’d think it would make sense before we do a call if others could get some of their top-level suggestions on the table as well.
> 
> As a starting point, what about having team members reply with points under the following sorts of headings:
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> 1.  Overarching Issues (holistic view of what’s needed)
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> 2.  NCSG Charter Conformity Issues
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> 3.  Discrepancies with Current Practices to Close
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> 4.  “Would be Nice” Improvements
> 
> or some similar parsing…let’s agree the categories and then start tossing our points in.
> 
> Re: the meeting, I’m looking at http://doodle.com/ncngb2w5tecmn3as and it seems like the two end of the month options are not working so well for people, there’s an awful lot of pink boxes. Time zone appears to be a challenge for Rafik, who’d I’d think should be on the call(s).  17:30-19:00 seems a winner for everyone but him because it’s the middle of the night in Japan.  Could people maybe take a second look at their schedules and see if they could make one of the 15:30-17:00 slots work?
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> We also need replies from more people…I count 27 people in this team and just 6 Doodle replies.  We can’t revise they bylaws with that level of participation…
> 
> Best
> 
> Bill 
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