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This is a brief update for the status meeting this Sunday. |
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1. I have not yet heard back from Mr. Chew in New Mexico on our |
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reinstatement. He indicated that it would take a few days, so this is |
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not a concern. I do not know (and he did not know) just what |
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information he needs from the state, so NM government agencies might be |
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involved. I'll call him at the end of the week if we haven't heard |
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anything. |
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2. I have looked at the proposed bylaws on our web site and as revised |
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on 2007-01-22. Except for the change from NM to Delaware, the proposed |
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revision is closer to what we actually are. That said, let me raise a |
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few points. |
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a. The (2007-01-22) proposal is quite detailed. Do we want the |
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initial bylaws to go into such specificity? This is probably not a big |
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deal one way or the other, because the bylaws are easily amended. And |
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NM does not care what is in them as long as they do not conflict with NM |
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law. |
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b. Both sets of bylaws call out both a Board (of Trustees) and |
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officers of the Foundation chosen by the trustees. At the moment, we |
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(the trustees) are acting as the officers of the Foundation (because we |
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chose ourselves if for no other reason). We need to think through how |
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this works and what structure we want. |
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c. Trustees must be members of the Foundation, but Officers of the |
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Foundation need only to be alive (in order to carry out their duties). |
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Right now that is probably OK because we have neatly resolved the issue |
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for the moment (see point b). |
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Because everything we do (in NM or anywhere else) keys off the bylaws, I |
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lean toward a recommendation as follows: After a quick scrub for sanity |
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and correctness, adapt the 2007-01-22 revision, with an eye to amending |
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it as experience warrants. And I know Roy has some ideas along these |
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lines which might belong in the bylaws or not. My inclination is to |
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pursue his ideas by other means because the bylaws should be rather |
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brief and general: The bylaws are the rules explaining who we are and |
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how we work procedurally. Thus, it is appropriate and necessary for the |
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bylaws to explain who the members are and how we vote, but inappropriate |
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for them to call out the President's salary. The bylaws are an enabling |
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document, giving the Trustees authority to act. |
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My thanks to my "brother in law to be" Renat Lumpau for his work to |
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produce the 2007-01-22 revision. (For the slow among you, that's an |
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in-joke of sorts.) |
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I hope to have a bit more on this later this week, but I am sending this |
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out a bit early because I know Josh is travelling this weekend. and I |
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wish to give him a chance to respond. |
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Regards, |
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Ferris |
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Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@g.o> |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc, Userrel, Trustees) |