This forum is the January 2012 Quarterly Governors' meeting of the Chess Federation of Canada. These started in 2010 as a result of a Governor's motion and have continued and grown since then and our feedback from previous meetings have been generally positive.

For the benefit of Governors attending one of these meetings for the first time let me explain the ground rules - each message thread in the meeting is a separate agenda item with the agenda itself being item #1. There are several motions before this meeting - these are agenda items 7 through 15. Voting starts on day 5 and continues to the end of the meeting. These will be agenda items 16a,b,c,d etc. (the software only allows one poll per thread) and will be made a 'sticky' which for the uninitiated simply means a message semi-permanently at the top of the list of topics when you sign in.

(By default, message threads will display in the order of the agenda - you can change this if you choose)

As per CFC rules, Governor voting is secret ballot with the results to be announced (including who voted which way) after the close of voting. I will try to expedite getting the announcement posted as quickly as possible during the time of voting. Normally midnight on the last day is the close of voting - though the president has extended meetings previously when there were important amendments to be voted.

In the voting threads there is to be NO DISCUSSION of the issues and any such message posting will be deleted without notice - the place for discussion is in the discussion topics which will remain open during the voting period.

Technical questions on procedure belong in this message thread and we'll try to answer them as quickly as possible.

Other than that, behave like you would in a face to face meeting and most of all, have fun!