Richard Freeman wrote: [Fri Jan 25 2008, 09:37:09AM CST]
> I agree.  Actually - to do otherwise may very well be illegal.  I'm not 
> sure what the penalties are if any.  If the bylaws are onerous they can be 
> changed, again following whatever process is stated in the bylaws, or 
> otherwise as proscribed by law.
>
> Is there any reason not to do things by the book?  What's the point of 
> having a legal entity if we're not going to follow the law?  Unless of 
> course the law allows the foundation to just ignore its bylaws...

You would be correct, of course, if the Foundation had an approved set
of bylaws.  It doesn't.  It has proposed bylaws that I wrote several
years ago, based off of the Python Software Foundation bylaws (with
the permission of the PSF), which were rejected by the Trustees at the
time because the membership and quorum rules conflicted with the
existing precedent.  Thus, there is no "book" to go by.  (Non-profit
corporations in NM are not required to have bylaws to incorporate.)
In the absence of that book, precedence becomes the guide.  For
practical purposes, we follow the proposed bylaws anyway, except where
there is clear precedence contradicting them.

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