Continue the discussion on IUG enhancement changes

[wesochuck (Wes Osborn)]

Thanks for the questions.

@grezes

Will there be a steering group size limit?

The Working Groups* for this process are planned to be between 6 and 12 people.

@grezes

Can more than one member of an organization be on a steering committee?

Yes, we would consider multiple people or the same person from an organization for participating in one or more Working Groups. If there were more people than slots available, part of the selection process might involve placing the person into only one of the Working Groups.

@grezes

with the vote, I need to be in there too

All site contacts who are active IUG members will be able to vote on any of the final selections. You do not need to be a member of a Working Group to vote on the final selections for that product.

@rayvoelker

Is it too late to throw a name for this out there?

• There is a write-in portion of the naming survey!

@mary.miller

In the Idea Exchange, will there be a way to distinguish minor from major enhancement requests?

Part of the Innovative pointing process helps distinguish between the sizes of requests. So, for example, in the final voting members might elect to select 5 “smaller” requests to be implemented or 1 “bigger” request.

There is a limit of 20 total ideas that the Working Groups can select to be pointed.

@pruntela

Hopefully for the working groups that span both Sierra and Polaris will be evenly divided (as well as public vs. academic, consortia vs. smaller, etc.).

Always important! And made easier when we have folks from all systems letting us know they’re interested in helping. A reminder, you can do that by indicating your interest in participating in a working group.

@pruntela

The IUG Steering Committee itself seems heavily weighed towards Polaris, so hope that there are enough Sierra reps involved (no offense to the Polaris folks, btw).

As a Polaris library, none taken. The current split is even with four of each system type on the steering committee. But this concern is one of the reasons we recently added a provision to the bylaws to make sure both systems had good representation on the Steering Committee.

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*Note: A quick note on definitions, we’ll try to work on some graphics to better represent this.

• Steering Committee: This is IUG’s main governing body or “board”. Steering Committee members are elected through an annual process (expect to hear results from the fall elections soon). For this process the Steering Committee’s main roles are: Signing the agreement with Innovative, establishing the Working Groups, establishing a voting process.
• Working Group: A group of 6 to 12 people, per product in the agreement, appointed by the Steering Committee to select a list of ideas to be further refined and then “pointed” by Innovative.
• Site Contacts: One person, per IUG member organization, who will be able to cast votes on the final selection of features to be added to a product.