Subject: ifcss document 2 (fwd)

From: Hongguang Zhou <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1993 22:36:55 -0400 (EDT)

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Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1993 10:55:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jinghong Li <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: Jinghong Li <[email-masked]>
Subject: ifcss document 2

July 29, 1992

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              Part Four. Conference Agebda and Rules
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This is a final note on the email conference.  As of to this moment, 15
out of 16 members have responded to the call, and are all ready to
participate in the meeting.  Some technical reminders follow:

1.  Proposals are moved by one or more Council members.   A second is
    required for all proposals.

2.  Besides proposals for establishing or re-establishing Council Committees,
    please move only those urgent proposals during this email conference.
    Other motions and more complex bills can be considered in the upcoming
    teleconference.

3.  According to Council Bylaw, Quorum of the meeting is 2/3 or more of the
    total member of the Council.  Currently 2/3(or more) of 16 is 11+.

4.  According to Council Bylaw, main motions or resolutions are adopted
    by vote of a majority of entire membership of the Council.

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                 IFCSS Council Special Session Package

                          Council Session 4-2

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                                Schedule
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Council Session:    4-2
Session Form:       email conference of special meeting
Duration:           one week (seven days)

Start Time:         0:00am PDT(pacific daysaving time), Tuesday, July 21, 1992
Close Time:         mid-night PDT, Monday, July 27, 1992.

Stage One:  first five days -- propose, discuss and finalize resolutions;
            all proposes shall be posted in or before the first three (3)
            days of the email conference;

Stage Two:  last two days -- vote on resolutions.

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                                 Agenda
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1. Re-establish the Finance Committee and Rules Committee according to
   Council resolutions C3015 and C3021;

2. Establish special Council Committees in preparation for the next
   Council teleconference.  Tentative committees are:

     Personal Committee, will conduct investigations on IFCSS HQ nominatees
                         for its working committees;

     Proposal Committee, will help members of the Council on language and
                         forms of resolutions which may be moved;

3. Discuss urgent proposals which might be moved by Council members or the
   HQ before or during the first three days of the email conference;

4. Vote on resolutions (last two days);

5. Approve personals for Council committees;

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                         Email Conference Rules
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1.  According to Council Bylaw related rules, all members are required to
    attend the email conference in one of the following two forms:

    a. post to the Council email network during the conference period;

    b. or, if no email accounts, contact, during the meeting time, two
       or more times with at least one Council member who has email access
       to Council net.

    If no email accounts, the member could have his/her concerns and votes
    be passed to the council network through any one of the members.

2.  To be present in the email conference, the member shall post to the
    Council network in the format required by Bylaw Article III, Section 5:

    "Chairperson, I am in presence for the E-mail meeting
    starting from___time___day___month___Year.  Name of the Member
    (sign)" in the above mentioned network  in response to the  call of
    the meeting before the announced meeting time.

3.  Council Secretary shall assign a serie number for each proposed
    resolution, and keep a record of all conference related posts;

4.  All votes shall be sent to the net and Council Secretary in duplicate
    within the voting period (the last two days of the conference) unless
    otherwise been pre-approved by the Chair.

5.  Due to the characteristics of email conference, amendments are not to
    be voted on whether or not to be adopted.  Rather, the resolution's
    original author should consider suggestions, changes, etc. seriously,
    and make modifications with other member's help.

6   Due to technical difficulties, the approval of personals for
    subcommittees will have to be voted at the same time when the
    resolutions to establish these subcommittees are voted.  In case of one
    or more subcommittees are not approved, the corresponding resolutions on
    their personal assignment are automatically disregarded.

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                Call for IFCSS Council Email Conference

To:    IFCSS Council
From:  Jinghong Li, Chair
Sub:   Council Email Conference
Date:  July 13, 1992

Dear Colleagues,

According to IFCSS Council Bylaw ARTICLE II, Section 1, ARTICLE III, and
after series consultations with members of the Council, the Chair hereby
calls for a Special Council 7-day Email Conference to be held during the
period of

 starting:   0:00am PDT(pacific daysaving time), Tuesday, July 21, 1992
 ending:     mid-night PDT, Monday, July 27, 1992.

Enclosed please find a tentative schedule, rules and agenda.  Please make
your suggestions and concerns about them known before mid-night PDT,
Wednesday July 15, 1992 by either posting to the Council net or to my email
address.  The final schedule, rules and agenda will be posted on Thursday,
July 16 at 10:00pm EDT.

Thank you for your attention.

Sincerely,

Jinghong Li (signed)
U. of Dayton
Dayton, Ohio