2011-06-28 Steering Committee Call
This is the normal June meeting.
Logistics
6/28/11 noon Eastern. Using Jasig Calliflower account. All steerers received individual invites.
Direct link to conference call: http://bit.ly/kNurCm
Attendance:
Attended:
- Marvin Addison
- Susan Bramhall
- Andrew Petro
- Bill Thompson
Absent:
Scott Battaglia
Agenda
Solicit Minute-taking volunteer
Susan
Election and By-Laws
Soliciting Nominations for seat currently occupied by apetro
Call for Nominations was announced via jasig-announce, is posted to Jasig CAS website news page, and will appear in Jasig Newsletter.
Further steps in election process should "just happen" without requiring cas-steer involvement, except to extent we wish to prod for nominations.
Can we get info on how many candidates are nominated. Suggested people to nominate:
- Mark at NAU (Marvin will contact)
- Kim Cary Chief Information Security Officer Pepperdine (Andrew will contact)
Adjusting our "by-laws"
A significant discussion about the election rules. We decided to reserve larger discussions of governance responsibilities until during or after the expected merger with Sakai.
1) Eliminate no-majority-of-elected-members-from-one-institution requirement, trusting stakeholders to elect well (CASST-11)
- Agreed. We will rely on the electorate to make judgment about appropriateness of candidates. Employer is disclosed in the election materials along with platform.
2) Eliminate requirement of odd number of voting members, clarify how ties are broken (CASST-13)
- Agreed. Tie votes do not pass. In the event of a tie, members may to request information from community or board to reach majority or consensus.
3) Eliminate rule about threshold absence from meeting prompting eligibility for removal by committee (CASST-12)
- Agreed. Like other Jasig committees, the CAS Steering committee is empowered to ask for resignation or otherwise deal with committee members who are not meeting their responsibility.
Next CAS Meet-Up - Marvin will move this along
Notes
Pavel Tavoda was asked to be CAS SPNEGO module maintainer. He asked if infrastructure was available since he does not currently deploy on Windows. Marvin will ask candidate if he could accept the position if Jasig contributed Windows infrastructure on which to do work.