Appointment: Roavin as Chairperson of the Shareholders

[Roavin]

1. What do you think the ideal role of a Chairperson/Assembly Speaker is?

Probably the best place to look for details is my campaign for the equivalent role in TSP back in 2018, which can be found here. But TL;DR: I believe in an active Speaker that takes an active role in guiding the Assembly, but does so with a gentle hand that encourages constructive debate rather than a heavy hand micromanaging everything that Shareholders do.

2. How would you approach organizing a vote on a divisive issue?

I don't see the process of a vote changing based on whether it's a divisive issue or not. What may change is what happens before the vote. Lazarus' Speaker doesn't have quite the plethora of discretionary powers that TSP's Chair does, but there are still quite a few things that the Speaker can do. For example, a vote expected to be unanimous can just be brought to vote when the time expires and the motions are made, but in other cases, the Speaker may determine that not all avenues have been explored and extend that a bit (up to 7 days, as per APA).

3. What do you think you could improve upon in the Shareholders/Assembly, how would you run it effectively?

McChimp did a fine job as-is, so it's really just tweaking details. Probably the biggest thing is that the way amendments are usually presented are, in my opinion, not easy to follow. Other regions usually present the changes in-line with the original text, using something like red strike-through text for anything that's deleted and green text for anything that's new. I'd like to introduce that here (maybe even codify it in APA after a while based on feedback/resonance/etc., though the discretionary power to enforce that differently is already there so it'll be an experiment).

4. Are there any skills or experience/s you would like to share that make you a good fit for Chairperson?

I've done it before, and while I wouldn't say I was TSP's greatest chair ever, I think I was pretty good.

5. What is your name?

Uh. Well, it's Chris, but I suspect that's not actually what you wanted to know.