- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 10:35:07 -0600
- To: ewallace@cme.nist.gov
- Cc: www-webont-wg@w3.org, "Ralph R. Swick" <swick@w3.org>
On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 10:16, ewallace@cme.nist.gov wrote: [...] > >Not that it really matters much to life as we know it; but I hope > >that we'll eventually keep formal meeting records and that the > >machine will be more helpful in preparing agendas and keeping > >track of actions. See > > http://esw.w3.org/topic/MeetingRecords > > Another area where a simple tool could help is with holding and > recording roll call votes. There are fairly simple constraints on > this and much of the related static data is already recorded > in wg webpage. Yes! This is exactly the sort of thing I hope for... > With the attendance list that Zakim has, it should > be possible to tell if a meeting is quorate. Unfortunately, Zakim doesn't currently know enough about who's present to correlate it with WG membership records. > Then tell the vote taker > which member rep. should be polled for each member or in some cases > provide the list of reps who are candidate voters for that member > organization. This is a comparatively weak use of logic based tools > in a standards meeting context, but it would be nice to have and a > good small demonstration of the SW. Yes, it would. Fortunately, we don't actually need to do roll call votes very often. Consequently, development of such a tool hasn't gotten much priority yet. While we rarely take roll call votes, we take attendance every week, and I really, really want to be able to do: DanC> Zakim, all present? Zakim> expecting: Hendler, Wallace DanC> Zakim, Wallace sent regrets Zakim> +Hendler Zakim> all present or otherwise accounted for. DanC> Zakim, roll? Zakim> 41 group members representing 23 member orgs. present: Connolly, W3C; Hendler, chair; Smith, EDS, ... regrets: ... excused: ... -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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