[NCSG-FC] Proposed FC Observers

[Tapani Tarvainen]

On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 05:26:07PM -0500, Edward Morris (egmorris1 at toast.net) wrote:

> The NCSG Charter is unclear as to how to bring additional people
> onto the Finance Committee to help us do our work. The Charter is
> actually unclear as to even the name of the Committee, referring to
> it both as the Financial Committee and as the Finance Committee. The
> Charter obviously needs to have a lot of work done on it.

Yes.

> "The NCSG Finance Committee (FC) shall be comprised of one
> representative from each Recognized Constituency. Each Candidate
> Constituency is entitled to appoint an observer. The NCSG Chair will
> participate as an ex-officio member of the NCSG-FC and will be
> included in consensus process and votes. The FC may invite other
> members as needed to meet its goals and responsibilities."

That is indeed a bit unclear, but I don't think anybody will object if
we decide to invite observers: that is pretty clearly the intent
behind the unclear wording.

> As we organize our work for the coming year I would like to get
> other NCSG members active with the FC’s work.
[...]
> As we bring people on board I think it would be optimal to also
> invite these working volunteer members to be Observers to the full
> Finance Committee, per NCSG Charter §2.6.1.

Agreed.

>  As we begin, though, I’d like to propose inviting the following NCSG members onto the Finance Committee as Observers immediately:
> 
>  NPOC Chair Klaus Stoll
>  NCUC Chair Farzaneh Badii
>  NCUC appointed FC alternate Florian Daniel

Sounds good.

> The first two are people we should be working with to coordinate
> overall NCSG financial matters, per NCSG Charter §2.6. Although
> there is no position of alternate in the NCSG Charter the NCUC
> appointed one so I propose adding Florian as an Observer
> immediately,

Agreed.

> with the understanding that any other NCSG member who wants to
> actively work with us on FC matters will be treated the same way.

Somehow I doubt there'll be a great rush of active people
flocking into FC...

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Tapani Tarvainen