Committee Procedures

Committee Membership

• Modality committees are open to anyone with a relevant interest.
• Secretary or Cochair can add your name to the roster
• Rosters for each committee are posted on the Wiki

• Groundwork groups and Authoring committees are typically volunteer subsets of their parent Modality committee
• Steering committee members are appointed by the secretariat

Decision Making

• Goal: group consensus
• Recorded vote required for procedural votes (e.g. approve for
  • negative votes must be discussed
  • ultimately 2/3 majority passes
• Recorded vote required for resolution of log-jams
  • simple majority passes
• For recorded votes:
  • Meeting Attendees names recorded in minutes, vote outcome recorded

Quorum

• All members on the Roster who have attended one or more of the last three meetings count toward quorum

Organizational Structure

• Steering Committee is established by the secretariat
• Modality Committees are established by the Steering committee to address new modality areas of QIBA
• Groundwork Committees are established by a Modality Committee as needed to focus on carrying out specific groundwork projects
• Authoring Groups are established by a Modality Committee as needed to focus on developing Profiles