--On Friday, March 13, 2020 17:59 +0100 Vittorio Bertola <vittorio.bertola=40open-xchange.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >... > If we want to keep 107 in the span, the best and most literal > substitution IMHO would be to count as in-person attendee > anyone who had at any time validly registered for in-person > attendance, even if they had cancelled before the general > cancellation. However, I guess there are others (no idea how > many) who would have registered at the last minute, should all > this mess not have happened. Still trying to find a middle ground here... More work for the Secretariat and probably more fragile should future meetings be moved to virtual, but, for this one, how about either; (1) Registered as above -or- (2) Attended plenary remotely. That would avoid both the objection of having to participate at a ridiculous time in one's time zone (for reasons that were discussed on the list weeks ago, I'm not too sympathetic about that, especially if it is just one session, but so it goes) and the unfortunate properties of disenfranchising would-be late registrants and effectively letting people buy Nomcom eligibility without doing anything substantive. While I don't like unnecessary complexity, I don't believe that any of these formulas are too complex to be workable. People decide whether they think they are eligible and submit their names (just like every other year). The Secretariat reviews the volunteer list and determines who is eligible (just like every other year). If people don't believe the Secretariat got that right, they protest and review the issue with the Secretariat and others (just like every other year). So whatever else an all-virtual meeting implies and requires changing, that doesn't seem to be on the list. I think the appropriate saying for that situation is "it ain't broke, don't fix it". john
