[Community-Discuss] Accountability assessment - quorum

[Dewole Ajao]

Is hard-wiring the numbers really a good idea as opposed to a percentage 
(of something or the other)?

Just thinking of a way to fix the quorum even if active membership were 
to double in a year or two.

Dewole.


On 28/09/2016 07:58, Alan Barrett wrote:
>> On 26 Sep 2016, at 22:00, Alan Barrett <alan.barrett at afrinic.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On 26 Sep 2016, at 18:22, Douglas Onyango <ondouglas at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Alan,
>>>> The current quorum requirement is 10 members, which is too small, but I think 10% is too large.
>>> Perhaps AFRINIC can share with us statistics on member attendance in
>>> the past 5 years. We can normalize this data and can use something
>>> like the lowest or average number of members present to prescribe a
>>> pragmatic number for our quorum requirement.
>> Sure, I can get those numbers.
> Here are the number of votes cast during recent Board elections.  The number of on-site votes gives a good idea of the number of members who attended the meetings.
>
>                  2013	2014	2015	2016
> E-Votes	        58	59	49	183
> On-Site Votes	45	66	77	62
> TOTAL      	103	125	126	245
>
> Given these attendance figures, I suggest a quorum requirement of 30 resource members in the future.
>
> Alan
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