Percentage Active Membership

[Alain Berranger]

Thks Avri,

count me in on the study team!

Alain

On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thank you for thanks.  I have made a sincere effort to do the work required
> to make this SG a functional stakeholder group and yes, it does take a lot
> of work that I have been generally happy to do.
>
> As for the pattern of active vs. non-active:  I have not had a chance to do
> a study on this.  There have been a few suggestions that this be subjected
> to serious consideration. I suggest that after all of this election activity
> is over, that a small team work on understanding this issue and that they
> propose new methods for the yearly process of confirming activity.  The
> charter calls for a yearly process and especially since we have no dues, it
> does seem ok, to require people to checkin at least once a year, especially
> since there are several issues like charter changes and appeal of EC
> decisions that have voting thresholds based on active membership.  The
> charter all does not go into details on how things get done and requires
> that the EC, with consultation from the membership, develop methods for
> meeting charter requirements.  That is work, the work of translating the
> charter into a set of practices, remains for next year's leadership.  This
> year's process was an ad-hoc one I proposed and then followed.  It was
> obviously not as well thought out as it could have been.  Now we have
> experience to go on, and can correct or replace the process I used with
> another one.
>
> A thought I might add.  This requirement to check for activity is a new one
> with the current charter.  Many of the NCSG members has been members for a
> very long time and may have fallen out of the habit of paying attention.
>  And while I did send separate email to everyone on the list at least once
> while reminding people on the list, it is quite possible that my email was
> consigned to garbage and that people are no longer reading the list.  Also
> some people were not longer at their previous addresses but I could find no
> new address for them, though I did put in effort to find them.  Many people
> only responded after someone they knew made outreach.
>
> avri
>
> On 9 Sep 2011, at 04:57, Alain Berranger wrote:
>
> > Thanks Avri for this and for the elections page... lots of work!!! Is
> there any pattern in the active-non-active lists that would give us clues on
> how to improve the participation rate?
> >
> > Best, Alain
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> wrote:
> > For those who care and follow this sort of thing.  As of the Election
> cutoff on the 5th, 56% of the NCSG membership had become active.
> >
> > It is my sincerest hope that whomever is selected to lead this group in
> the future (EC/PC/FC, Chair, and Council members) can find a way to raise
> the percentage of active participants much further than this in subsequent
> years.
> >
> > avri
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Alain Berranger, B.Eng, MBA
> > http://www.jumo.com/ict4dk
> > Executive-in-residence, Schulich School of Business,
> www.schulich.yorku.ca
> > Trustee, GKP Foundation, www.globalknowledgepartnership.org
> > Vice Chair, Canadian Foundation for the Americas - www.focal.ca
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> >
>



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Alain Berranger, B.Eng, MBA
http://www.jumo.com/ict4dk
Executive-in-residence, Schulich School of Business, www.schulich.yorku.ca
Trustee, GKP Foundation, www.globalknowledgepartnership.org
Vice Chair, Canadian Foundation for the Americas - www.focal.ca
O:+1 514 484 7824; M:+1 514 704 7824
Skype: alain.berranger
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