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On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 20:05 +0000, Ferris McCormick wrote: |
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> > The draft agenda and usual notices can be found at |
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> > http://dev.gentoo.org/~neddyseagoon/docs/Trustee_Agenda_Apr_2008.xml |
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> I'll give a preview of the bylaws item so that people can think about |
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> it. |
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Thanks, I must say this is one area I am not to excited about, but needs |
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to be done. |
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> If you take the rl03 revision (attached) as a basis, about the only |
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> interesting outstanding point of discussion (as I remember --- to be |
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> fair to you, I must say that I'm not reading it while I write this) |
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> concerns the section on Membership. That is, the bylaws must spell out |
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> who is a member of the Foundation because (1) membership list must be on |
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> file with our agent; (2) other sections of the bylaws depend on it. |
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I don't have much input there. Other than there should be some sort of |
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term limit to membership, not eternally a member. Also it would be nice |
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to know who are the members. |
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Otherwise pretty open there, and not to many thoughts ideas atm. Will |
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see about reviewing it all, and coming up with something for the meeting |
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or etc. But might be an area where I have minor input, short of approval |
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or rejection :) |
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> I do not think the proposal spells out what we say we do at the moment, |
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> and that raises some issues. |
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Yes, and potentially lots of discussion. I think for conflict of |
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interest purposes. Most companies keep the board and the officers |
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separate. Some tend to have people on both. I am not sure if that's much |
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of an issue for us. But seems that the by laws are places where we would |
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declare that. Along with what each does, duties, roles, etc. That's a |
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must to provide a road map and guide for future replacements :) |
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> I have my own views, I know Roy does, and |
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> I suspect others do as well. I do believe that whatever we decide to |
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> do, we must (ought to? are morally bound to?) "grandfather" current |
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> members and use that to establish a base. |
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Yes we should not excluded or current members. Unless we determine there |
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is some term. And some are beyond that, thus do not qualify for |
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membership short of some activity or something. |
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William L. Thomson Jr. |
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amd64/Java/Trustees |
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