What Wilma said!
We haven't even scratched the surface of the constitution. We're still filling in the gaps in everything that was partially decided by the membership before the committee was convened, and we're less than halfway through that.
Sounds like it could be two more months before this is done. I say, let's open up invitations. Would it be easier to do one huge lump per week than to do 2 or 3 a day? When they dribble in, I have trouble remembering whom I've reviewed already.
I count 70 names in the "List of People We May Someday Invite". Let's just list all of them at once. I really think it would be less painful to do it that way, especially if we divide up the work.
Each individual invite should say:
__________ is invited to join B77, please comment, and when voting opens on April _, please vote. All votes will end, and all individual invite threads will be locked and hidden at midnite, ___ zulu time, April ___.
We do not have an email or IM contact for this person. If you have one, post the fact that you have one (but not the email or IM itself) in this thread, if no one has done so already. Then email the information to Helper #1.
We do not yet have a sponsor for this person. If you would like to sponser him/her/it, say so in this thread, if no one else has done so already. Email your email address to Helper #1.
All of these invite threads could be started by
Helper #2, with lots of copying and pasting, only changing the name and the title. (Two hours)At the end of the voting time,
Admin A will lock and hide all of these individual threads, and the "List of People ... " thread (2 hours). Just before they are hidden,
Helper #3 will make a list of all the "pass" votes, and post it in a "Results" thread. (The "fail" or "veto" voted invitees will be listed in the first post of the "Who we have voted for already" thread by
Admin A (1/2 hour).
Helper #1 will, using the results list and the emails acquired, send each sponsor his/her invitee's email address with the request to do the invitation (or polite rejection) letter, with the caution that it may take a few days to activate (2 hours, as the form letter will vary only by names and emails). Once the invitee has been contacted and has replied to the sponsor, the sponsor will post the results of the contact in the Results thread (yes, no, maybe later, etc.). The invitees will dribble in, and will have to be activated one by one by
Admin A.