SR - Committee

[Timothy A. McDaniel]

Conor wrote, in a MIME-encoded message with a lot
of stuff at the bottom (French, I suppose):
> I do not dislike the criteria that have been proposed,
> I just find them superfluous at this early stage.

To elaborate on some previous comments of mine (who, me,
elaborate?):

I've heard it said that some SCA guilds go thru this process:
1) (over some days) Decide to form a guild
2) (over some months) Draw up an elaborate charter with processes
   and rules and amendment procedures and rankings and titles and ...
3) (over some days) Die.

I was in a group of players that never had formal rules or
votes.  At any single time, there were one or two people who
generally got listened to and sorta ran things, and if
anyone asked who our leader was, we pointed to them.

On Cariadoc's third hand, principality organizational
committees are a different thing.  If meetings get too long,
if discussion wanders all over, et cetera, then a chairman,
agenda, and rules are in order.  I would just not focus on 
elaborate procedures now.

For example, if Tivar were on the Central Committee, I'd be
happy with a rule set like this:

0) [insert statement of purpose and scope here -- basically,
    what is the committee supposed to do, what areas do they
    make decisions in]
1) Tivar moderates the meetings.
2) The committee makes decisions by consensus.
3) If the committee is not running smotthly or properly,
    any member can suggest rules to fix it and the committee
    can adopt them.  In particular, Tivar must monitor and
    evaluate progress and make such suggestions at need.

If Rules of Order are needed, Tadhg Liath's Rules of Order
might work.  He stated them when be became a branch
seneschal (in the Cleftlands?):

Rule 1.  Nobody interrupts the baron and baroness [here, the Crown].
Rule 2.  Nobody interrupts me except the baron or baroness.
Rule 3.  Nobody interrupts anyone else except the baron, the
baroness, or me.
Rule 4.  If you violate the rules, we put a bag over your
head.  If you violate the rules again, we hit the bag with
sticks.

He says the room got *very* quiet, and the meetings were
very mannerly.  I don't think he ever brought out a bag (and
I don't think he intended to, but this *is* Tadhg, so you
just don't know).

Daniel de Lincolia
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