On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 20:13 +0100, Roy Bamford wrote:
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> On 2008.04.22 02:47, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
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> > These aren't the ten commandments to never be amended or changed :)
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> > William L. Thomson Jr.
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> > Gentoo Foundation
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> William,
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> Very true but lets not do work for works sake. Of course if you have 
> already removed it from the draft you are maintaining, its more work to 
> add it back in.

Well also keep in mind, the bigger the by laws are. If we need someone
to review them. That will take them longer, either paid or pro bono. So
why waste space, and peoples reading time. With stuff that has no
current use or application in the by laws.

> We don't have very long until our review meeting so we want to do the 
> minimum necessary to get a set of bylaws we can adopt.

Well we have by laws on file now. I would not be so quick to rush
another draft through. Let's clean house, and do a thorough review and
analysis.

But we are just about to get to the meat, and really start trimming the
fat.

> I see an annual bylaw review being put in place to ensure the bylaws 
> a) are not forgotten
> b) are maintained.
> Possibly just before election time. Anyway, I'm rambling. 

I do see a reason to set forth such a mandate. That should be an ongoing
thing, and at any time they can be reviewed and revised. There might be
no changes on year, another year several.

I see keeping the by laws up to date, and maintaining them as a primary
responsibility of the foundation, trustees, and any officers. So I don't
think we need to spell out the obvious. But up to the majority really.

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William L. Thomson Jr.
amd64/Java/Trustees
Gentoo Foundation