Re: 72 hour call for consensus ­ election of new PBG Steering Committee slate

I voted +1 before reading Daniel Glazman's response. The majority of
responses matched mine, but I found myself thinking again about the
proposal, largely because Daniel's objections are rooted in the governance
model that we have adopted for the PBG. I support the idea of task forces
and the steering committee, but I don't want to do harm to decisions made
last year or within w3c on how the group should operate.

I'm operating with a partial understanding of the objection, and I'd like
to close the gap. Is there a way to reserve some time to talk about this at
an upcoming meeting? I know BG time is precious, and governance is not the
most motivating topic. If a discussion is not in the cards, perhaps there
are resources to help me better understand the issues Daniel is raising.

On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 3:04 PM, AUDRAIN LUC <LAUDRAIN@hachette-livre.fr>
wrote:

> The Publishing BG has decided by consensus at our 30 Jan 2017 call to put
> forward a slate of candidates for the new Steering Committee, as
> recommended by the co-chairs to help reshape that group into a cross-group
> coordination body.
> This new Steering Committee will consist of the co-chairs of the Pub BG,
> Pub WG, and EPUB 3 CG plus leads of certain task forces of the PBG.
> Strategic decisions will be taken in the PBG as a whole, not by the SC.
> This is somewhat of an experiment and so we are not proposing to amend the
> charter at this stage.
>
>
>
> *You are invited to provide email feedback on this call for consensus
> within the next 72 hours* (by 3pm on Friday Feb 2 US ET time).
>
> If you approve that *the PBG be considered to have elected, by consensus,
> the proposed slate as the new Steering Committee*, each to serve a
> one-year term (to be considered resigned if their chair/lead
> responsibilities change), please reply +1. If you disapprove, please -1,
> neutral 0.
>
>
>
>             Ric Johnson (Ingram / VitalSource) - co-chair Publishing BG
>
>             Liisa McCloy-Kelley (Penguin Random House) - co-chair
> Publishing BG
>             Luc Audrain (Hachette Livre) - co-chair Publishing BG
>
>             Dave Cramer (Hachette Book Group) - co-chair EPUB 3 CG
>
>             Rachel Comerford (Macmillan Learning) - co-chair EPUB 3 CG
>
>             Tzivya Siegman (Wiley) - co-chair Publishing WG
>
>             Garth Conboy (Google)  - co-chair Publishing WG
>
>             George Kerscher (DAISY) - co-lead, PBG a11y task force
>
>             Bill Kasdorf (Apex) - co-lead, PBG external coordination task
> force
>
>             Daihei Shiohama (Media Do) - co-lead, PBG external
> coordination task force
>
> If the chairs do not see consensus we will conduct a different election
> process.
>
> The co-chairs,
> Kind regards,
> Luc
>



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