Percentage Active Membership

[Alain Berranger]

Hi Avri,

Sorry for belated response on my last vacation day. I understand. Will make
myself available to new EC to help with outreach. Best, Alain

On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> wrote:

> Hi Alain,
>
> Thanks.
>
> I am not sure it is something I will be responsible for.  I expect that it
> will be an activity that comes out of the new EC and the new Chair whoever
> that might end up being.  But I expect they will do outreach to the group,
> assuming they decide this is a reasonable activity.
>
> avri
>
>
> On 11 Sep 2011, at 05:46, Alain Berranger wrote:
>
> > 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
> > > O:+1 514 484 7824; M:+1 514 704 7824
> > > Skype: alain.berranger
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > 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
> >
>



--
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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