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00542: Re: WDDM future - GGvoter zugabe

From: Bruce Eggum <bruce.eggum(at)gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 17:24:11 -0600
Subject: Re: WDDM future - GGvoter zugabe

Dear S"ace,

Gremium translated means committee.
Is this your meaning? I tried to translate the page you sent but no go. It sent me to committee. Also note the committee has structure, and keeps minutes so the outcome is transparent and useful.
Bruce

Committee

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A committee is a (relatively) small group that can serve one of several functions:

It is common for a chairperson to organize a committee meeting through an agenda, which is usually distributed in advance. The chairperson is responsible for running meetings: keeping the discussion on the appropriate subject, recognizing members (calling on them to speak) [often omitted in smaller committees], and calling for votes after a debate has taken place [formal voting is normally only done in committees involved in governance]. Governance committees often have formal processes (for example, they might follow Roberts Rules of Order); other types of committees typically operate informally, with the chairperson being responsible for deciding how formal the committee processes will be.

Minutes, a record of the discussion and decisions of the meeting, are often taken by a person designated as the secretary of the committee; they may be legally obligatory (again, typically for governance committees). For committees that meet regularly, the minutes of the most recent meeting are often circulated to committee members before the next meeting.

Committees may meet on a regular basis, often weekly or yearly, or meetings may be called irregularly as the need arises. During an emergency, a committee may meet more than once per day, or sit in permanent session, as, for example, ExComm (the President's Executive Committee) did during the Cuban missile crisis.

A committee that is a subset of a larger committee is called a subcommittee. [Where the larger group has a name other than "committee" - for example, "Board" or "Commission", the smaller group(s) would be called committee(s), not subcommittee(s)] For organizations where the Board of Directors is large - say 20 people or more - it's common to have an Executive Committee, of Board members, which is authorized to make some decisions on behalf of the entire Board.

Committees, both permanent and ad hoc (unofficial), appear both in representative democracies and in non-democratic structures. They may bear titles such as Commission, Board, Council, Presidium, or Politburo. Unofficial committees often get unflattering labels such as junta, camarilla or cabal.

Committees are a necessary aspect of organizations of any significant size (say, more than 15 or 20 people). They keep the number of participants managable; with larger groups, either many people do not get to speak (and feel left out), or discussions are quite lengthy (and many participants find them duplicative and often boring).

Committees are a way to formally draw together people of relevant expertise from different parts of an organization who otherwise would not have a good way to share information and coordinate actions. They may have the advantage of widening viewpoints and sharing out responsibilities.

Their disadvantages appear in the possibilities for procrastination, undesirable compromises in order to build consensus, and groupthink, where (valid) objections or disconfirming evidence is either not voiced or is ignored. Moreover, the need to schedule a meeting, get enough committee members together to have a quorum, and debate until a majority agrees on a course of action, can result in undesirable delays in taking action. (A common joke, in organizations, is that when someone doesn't want to make an unpopular decision, he/she creates a committee to study the question.)

Some famous committees include:

Notable subcommittees include:




On 12/21/05, S'ace wrote:
hey fellow member ...
i was surprised the word "gremium" is not a wellknown word in the english/american language ...
hmmm ... i had a thought on that fact ...

maybe it can be helpfull if i serve you here by offering the german-wiki-word-link:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gremium

add your service,
;-) s'ace



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