OASIS DocBook TC2

Mary has to make the final announcement, of course, and I suppose that
53 or more companies could suddenly vote "no", but it seems likely
that with 52 members voting yes (15% of the membership) and no members
voting no as of 15:51 EDT, our ballot for DocBook V4.5 will pass.

:-)

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

-- 
Norman Walsh 

Woohoo! Now we can get working on 5.0 as a Release Candidate! :-)

--Scott

Norman Walsh wrote:
> Mary has to make the final announcement, of course, and I suppose that
> 53 or more companies could suddenly vote "no", but it seems likely
> that with 52 members voting yes (15% of the membership) and no members
> voting no as of 15:51 EDT, our ballot for DocBook V4.5 will pass.
>
> :-)
>
>                                         Be seeing you,
>                                           norm
>
>   


-- 

Hi everyone,

  Please note that Kavi calculation is not accurate -- 15% of 357 is 52.05,
meaning that you need 53 votes ... I did mention on the TAB call earlier today
that two ballots were in jeopardy of failing due to insufficent votes and urged
any voting members to vote ...

Mary 

> 

                                                

					
                                                    

        
                                                
				
                                                

                                                    
                                                        
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                                                Original Message-----
> From: Norman Walsh [mailto:ndw@nwalsh.com] 
> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 3:53 PM
> To: docbook-tc@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [docbook-tc] It looks like DocBook V4.5 will pass!
> 
> Mary has to make the final announcement, of course, and I suppose that
> 53 or more companies could suddenly vote "no", but it seems 
> likely that with 52 members voting yes (15% of the 
> membership) and no members voting no as of 15:51 EDT, our 
> ballot for DocBook V4.5 will pass.
> 
> :-)
> 
>                                         Be seeing you,
>                                           norm
> 
> -- 
> Norman Walsh 

Mary,

I see that JoAnn Hackos has voted for DocBook 4.5
in the name of ComTech.

But JoAnn Hackos is also listed as the voting 
principle for Society for Technical Communication
which is listed as not voting.

I submit that OASIS makes this too confusing, and
that if JoAnn voted for it for ComTech, she certainly
meant to vote for it for STC, so we should also count
STC as voting in favor of this ballot.

JoAnn, if you read this email before midnight Saturday
and can figure out how to cast a vote for STC, please
do so.

paul

> 

                                                

					
                                                    

        
                                                
				
                                                

                                                    
                                                        
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                                                Original Message-----
> From: Mary McRae [mailto:marypmcrae@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Friday, 2006 September 29 15:34
> To: 'Norman Walsh'; docbook-tc@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: RE: [docbook-tc] It looks like DocBook V4.5 will pass!
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
>   Please note that Kavi calculation is not accurate -- 15% of 
> 357 is 52.05,
> meaning that you need 53 votes ... I did mention on the TAB 
> call earlier today
> that two ballots were in jeopardy of failing due to 
> insufficent votes and urged
> any voting members to vote ...
> 
> Mary 
> 
> > 
Original Message-----
> > From: Norman Walsh [mailto:ndw@nwalsh.com] 
> > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 3:53 PM
> > To: docbook-tc@lists.oasis-open.org
> > Subject: [docbook-tc] It looks like DocBook V4.5 will pass!
> > 
> > Mary has to make the final announcement, of course, and I 
> suppose that
> > 53 or more companies could suddenly vote "no", but it seems 
> > likely that with 52 members voting yes (15% of the 
> > membership) and no members voting no as of 15:51 EDT, our 
> > ballot for DocBook V4.5 will pass.
> > 
> > :-)
> > 
> >                                         Be seeing you,
> >                                           norm
> > 
> > -- 
> > Norman Walsh 

Mary McRae wrote:

>   Please note that Kavi calculation is not accurate -- 15% of 357 is 52.05,
> meaning that you need 53 votes ... 

This is not very good joke. I checked ballot page yesterday evening 
(CEST) to see if we have enough votes. I saw 15% percent here, so I 
didn't urged several members that are from US, who were at that time at 
their work and can make additional votes before they will leave their 
computers and go to weekend (when voting ends).

It is absolutely unacceptable for me if 15% shown on OASIS page doesn't 
mean 15% in reality. If this confusing information will led to fact that 
DocBook V4.5 will not be approved as an OASIS standard I will have no 
other possibility then to leave OASIS. Members of TC did a lot of hard 
work to prepare DocBook V4.5 and I can't support organization that is 
wasting time and talent of those people because of rounding error.

Regards,

			Jirka Kosek


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Mary,

I agree with Jirka and Norm on this 100%.  If the vote
didn't actually make it in time because of this (I'm out
of the country and don't have very good access, so I can't
tell if we got that last vote or not), I think you have no
option except to extend the voting period and send out a
note explaining the situation.

BTW, any possibility of giving an individual member .05 of
a vote:-).  I think I pay at least that percentage of the
smaller corporate types for my membership.  If so, count
me as a yes!

Thanks,
Dick Hamilton
rlhamilton@frii.com
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On Sat, 2006-09-30 at 17:51 +0200, Jirka Kosek wrote:
> Mary McRae wrote:
> 
> >   Please note that Kavi calculation is not accurate -- 15% of 357 is 52.05,
> > meaning that you need 53 votes ... 
> 
> This is not very good joke. I checked ballot page yesterday evening 
> (CEST) to see if we have enough votes. I saw 15% percent here, so I 
> didn't urged several members that are from US, who were at that time at 
> their work and can make additional votes before they will leave their 
> computers and go to weekend (when voting ends).
> 
> It is absolutely unacceptable for me if 15% shown on OASIS page doesn't 
> mean 15% in reality. If this confusing information will led to fact that 
> DocBook V4.5 will not be approved as an OASIS standard I will have no 
> other possibility then to leave OASIS. Members of TC did a lot of hard 
> work to prepare DocBook V4.5 and I can't support organization that is 
> wasting time and talent of those people because of rounding error.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 			Jirka Kosek
> 
>