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Since we agreed to limit the period of the chairman to half a year,
Rene's period has expired at end of June.
Therefore, this poll is intended to install our next chairman,
who will serve until the end of 2014.
In the future we should care for a successor before the period
expires. I would see it as the responsibility of the chairman
to care for a successor.

- Josef

We need 1 more vote to get a quorum of 70%

DGDanforth wrote:We need 1 more vote to get a quorum of 70%

We have 80% quorum.
http://wiki.blackboxframework.org/index ... overned.3F

Now there are 11 members, that 11*80% = 8.8. So 9 people need to vote for voting counted as valid. We need +3 people.

I would like to propose to our next chairman to issue a poll about a refinement to our quorum rule.

The added rule is:
If we have a majority of more than 50% (currently 6 out of 11) we don't need to wait for more votes.

This could speed up the voting process considerably.

- Josef

Josef Templ wrote:I would like to propose to our next chairman to issue a poll about a refinement to our quorum rule.

The added rule is:
If we have a majority of more than 50% (currently 6 out of 11) we don't need to wait for more votes.

This could speed up the voting process considerably.

- Josef

Thoughts:
If a simple majority is all that is needed then the idea of 'quorum' is negated.
If quorum is still needed then what is the meaning of votes ranging between the majority and the quorum?
Perhaps we should vote to lower the quorum to a simple majority where a simple majority is used for that vote.

Ivan Denisov wrote:

DGDanforth wrote:We need 1 more vote to get a quorum of 70%

We have 80% quorum.
http://wiki.blackboxframework.org/index ... overned.3F

Now there are 11 members, that 11*80% = 8.8. So 9 people need to vote for voting counted as valid. We need +3 people.

Thank you Ivan. Searching the past discussion on the quorum I found a vote
http://forum.blackboxframework.org/view ... p?f=4&t=20
where 70% was the maximum value of the vote. Where does 80% come from?
-Doug

DGDanforth wrote:Thank you Ivan. Searching the past discussion on the quorum I found a vote
http://forum.blackboxframework.org/view ... p?f=4&t=20
where 70% was the maximum value of the vote. Where does 80% come from?

Because the vote was the precondition (why?):

Ivan wrote:The results of this voting will be average of members choices rounded up to decade.

Some discussion with Rene.

Hmm,
Thank you.
-Doug

DGDanforth wrote:If a simple majority is all that is needed then the idea of 'quorum' is negated.

Once a situation is reached (like in the current vote) where any additional votes would not change the majority then, yes, there is no point in waiting any further.

Ivan,
Do you think we still need 2 more votes (the count is 7 as of this writing)?