IrcCouncilChanges: Decision making & coverage.

[Joseph Price]

It seems my previous email was truncated... odd... but thanks pleia
for getting back to me & being ok with suggestions from the community.


I'd like to start off with two quotes from the governance document
that I think are badly in need of a change.

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"Decisions will be made by a majority of voting IRC Council members
when at least three and more than half of the total members have
voted."

This caused several issues whilst I sat on the council. I would
propose that all decisions require approval by at least half the total
members on the council. ie if only 3 members are present, then all 3
would have to '+1' the decision. Two +1's and one abstaining would not
suffice.
This would avoid situations where 3 members attend a meeting, and a
motion is passed with approval by 2 of those. The absent 2 may then be
found to be against this decision.

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"The Ubuntu IRC Council (''IRCC'') is the team governance council for
the the Ubuntu IRC channels on the freenode network. " & "The IRC
Council is the group that is ultimately responsible for the governing
the IRC channels and interfacing between IRC and the rest of the
Ubuntu community and governance systems."

I don't think that these two sentences are define the scope of the
IRCC well enough.

Examination of http://freenode.net/group_registration.shtml would be a
good start to understand how projects work on freenode. Does the IRCC
look after xubuntu's irc community, mythbuntu's, fluxbuntu's,
randombuntu's? I think that a limit has to be set here in order for
the group's governance to be effective. Of course future projects
could be added when needed. Projects should want to use the ubuntu
namespace in order to gain the benefits that being part of the Ubuntu
IRC Community brings.

Comments please! :-)