Cleanup for selection of Chair and other member roles #146
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Basically all of this was discussed in our nov. 20th meeting, and there seemed to be consensus there. The only thing that's new appears to be the chair selection procedures, which are fine with me. @wics-uw/contributors any thoughts? If not, will merge today. |
| will ultimately select the composition of the committee for next term. | ||
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| 4. stress the time commitment involved for a committee role. |
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Energy is less objective than time ;)
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I think energy is worth mentioning to applicants.
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I am not saying you shouldn't mention it, just that it doesn't have to be a requirement. Energy is a personal, subjective thing. Time commitment is a solid, objective criterion.
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the text doesn't say to mention it as a requirement, it just says to stress that there is a big time [and energy] commitment
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Yes, it is a requirement: The interviewers must
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a requirement for the interviewer to mention, not for the interviewee to 'have' in some way and define for themself
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I am saying that it is reasonable to require time to be mentioned, but not energy, as that is going to vary from candidate to candidate. I would not talk about the energy required because what I perceive that I'm putting into it energy-wise is not going to be the same as what the candidate might, but time is a more standard requirement.
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Maybe we're seeing the context of this differently.
I see it as giving the candidate an idea of what it'll be like on a committee, so that they're aware of what they're getting into. We're not saying 'you need x amount of energy' but just 'this can be fairly draining, and it's good to be aware of the energy that being in committee takes'
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In 57c9f58 above, I addressed some but not all of the feedback. In particular, I left "time vs. time and energy" and "must vs. should have two interviewers" the way they were. I am happy to change them, but I'd like to see official committee decisions rather than a number of individual votes and comments. |
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@evykassirer doesn't think there will be another official committee meeting soon. We can hold an online poll of everyone on current committee, but to actually approve constitution we have to wait for a real meeting which looks like it will happen next term. |
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@fboxwala @evykassirer that doesn't make a lot of sense, since the new committee was not having the discussions we were this term about various items in here and thus isn't really qualified to make a decision without dragging this out even longer. I would really like to have this approved such that we can send it out as reading and prep material for the new and returning members. Is it not possible to schedule a quick <30min meeting to get this approved? |
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@evykassirer is going to send out a whenisgood soon for meeting times next week and hopefully we can discuss this and the interview candidates then. |
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| 5. Using the applications and interview feedback, the current committee | ||
| will ultimately select the composition of the committee for next term. | ||
| 5. Two interviewers must be present at every interview, and each shall |
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As per our December 12th meeting, committee has decided to 's/must/should'
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Contingent on the two changes above the constitution is approved as of December 12th. |
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I read the deployed version through fully and it looked good, so I'm going to merge this and open a PR to merge the constitution into master. Hoping that @fboxwala or another @wics-uw/committers will do that. |
Cleanup for selection of Chair and other member roles
Addresses #119.