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On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Roy Bamford  wrote:
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>  Team,
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>  1. We are required to advise Foundation members of meetings, in advance
>  and it seems, written notice is required. Its my view that an opt in
>  mailing list like gentoo-nfp is not adequate. Many members don't
>  subscribe and its also used for public debate, which many members are
>  not interested in.
>  I don't think snail mail is in keeping with our image either.
>
>  It follows that we need something like gentoo-foundation-announce which
>  members are automaticly subscribed to or we use a list of members email
>  addresses to circulate notices. The difference is one of implementation
>  detail.
>

Seems a good idea.

>  We probably need to agree our bylaws before we can implement such a
>  list, as the bylaws define the qualifications for membership.
>
>  2. IRC voting and Proxies.
>  I'm not sure we will ever use IRC for a vote. It could be managed by
>  voicing the members on the list in 1) and setting the channel +m. Votes
>  are then cast, since only members can speak in the channel.
>

It doesn't work for the reasons you mention.

>
>  I'm coming round to the opinion that any issues needing to be put to a
>  vote of members will be voted on in the normal Gentoo way over a period
>  of days, if not weeks. If that's so, we need some officers to run
>  votes.

Until (unless?) you decide to change the Foundation membership rules,
you can use last voting officers. I've talked with rane and fox2mike
about starting a gentoo election project, which would be responsible
for keeping the election scripts. The team would update (tweak?) the
scripts as needed, but an infra member would still run the scripts -
no change on policy. The project would have a list of members that are
willing to be officers on elections and for any particular election a
subset of member would be chosen to run it. This election team could
also help coordinate or run elections for other teams - if asked to do
so.

>
>  I'm just trying to air my views in advance of the Sunday meeting in the
>  hope it will make the meeting slicker.
>
>  Thoughts and other options please.

- From the previous mails, my understanding is that the point about
membership to the Foundation is not to be discussed on this meeting,
but on a later date. Am I correct?

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>  Regards,
>
>  Roy Bamford
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