MDC Taskgroup 8 - Internal Procedures
Chair: Gretchen Bradfield
Established: October 1991
Chair: Gretchen Bradfield
Scope of work: X11/TG8/93-13, 25 October 1993
Time-table: X11/TG8/93-13, 25 October 1993
- Standard proposal rules: October 1993
- Constitution changes: January 1994
- Delete redundant sections
- Subcommittee Chair's ability to remove a Task Group chair
- Procedure for filling a vacant office
- Streamlining procedures: January/June 1994
- Corrigenda: October 1994
- TG8 Bylaws: January 1994
- Document interchange format: January 1995
Bylaws: X11/TG8/94-2, 16 January 1994
1. Name
This Task Group shall be called MDC Task Group 8: Internal
Procedures,
hereafter referred to as the Task Group.
2. Introduction
These bylaws are for the purpose of extending and clarifying the
Constitution
of the MUMPS Development Committee; with no intent of conflicting
with or
circumventing it. Therefore, the bylaws are to be interpreted in
the spirit of
the Constitution, and, in the event of apparent conflict, the
bylaws are
submissive to the Constitution.
3. Scope of Work
- Update of Procedure Rules to reflect current status of MDC
- Modifications to Constitution to remove repeated wording and
to allow
Subcommittee Chairs to remove task group chairs for lack of
progress,
etcetera.
- Investigate possibilities of streamlining changes to
technical
proposals.
- Provide procedures for producing corrigenda.
- Assist task groups in producing bylaws.
This scope of work is not to be misinterpreted as being the
entire scope of
work of the Task Group. New proposals may be introduced at the
pleasure of the
MDC.
4. Membership
- Membership in the Task Group is by individual.
- Those individuals represented at the St. Louis Meeting in
October 1991
will be considered to be members of the Task Group.
- As per the Constitution, the MDC Chair is a member of the
Task Group,
although his or her attendance does not affect quorum, nor will
membership be
lost for lack of attendance.
- The Vice Chair and all Subcommittee Chairs are members of the
Task Group,
although their attendance does not affect quorum, nor will
membership be lost
for lack of attendance.
- Individuals may apply for membership by petitioning the Task
Group at the
second consecutive meeting attended.
- Membership will be lost if the individual is not present for
2 consecutive
meetings.
5. Voting privileges
- Voting privileges are contingent upon membership.
6. Schedule
| Date
| Goal |
| October 1993
| Procedure Rules |
| Jan/February 1994:
| Constitution |
| Jan/February 1994:
| Bylaws |
| June 1994:
| Streamlined changes |
| October 1994:
| Corrigenda |
| ...
| Electronic communication
|