1 |
On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 20:13 +0100, Roy Bamford wrote: |
2 |
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- |
3 |
> Hash: SHA1 |
4 |
> |
5 |
> On 2008.04.22 02:47, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: |
6 |
> [snip] |
7 |
> > |
8 |
> > These aren't the ten commandments to never be amended or changed :) |
9 |
> > |
10 |
> > -- |
11 |
> > William L. Thomson Jr. |
12 |
> > amd64/Java/Trustees |
13 |
> > Gentoo Foundation |
14 |
> > |
15 |
> > |
16 |
> |
17 |
> William, |
18 |
> |
19 |
> Very true but lets not do work for works sake. Of course if you have |
20 |
> already removed it from the draft you are maintaining, its more work to |
21 |
> add it back in. |
22 |
|
23 |
Well also keep in mind, the bigger the by laws are. If we need someone |
24 |
to review them. That will take them longer, either paid or pro bono. So |
25 |
why waste space, and peoples reading time. With stuff that has no |
26 |
current use or application in the by laws. |
27 |
|
28 |
> We don't have very long until our review meeting so we want to do the |
29 |
> minimum necessary to get a set of bylaws we can adopt. |
30 |
|
31 |
Well we have by laws on file now. I would not be so quick to rush |
32 |
another draft through. Let's clean house, and do a thorough review and |
33 |
analysis. |
34 |
|
35 |
But we are just about to get to the meat, and really start trimming the |
36 |
fat. |
37 |
|
38 |
> I see an annual bylaw review being put in place to ensure the bylaws |
39 |
> a) are not forgotten |
40 |
> b) are maintained. |
41 |
> Possibly just before election time. Anyway, I'm rambling. |
42 |
|
43 |
I do see a reason to set forth such a mandate. That should be an ongoing |
44 |
thing, and at any time they can be reviewed and revised. There might be |
45 |
no changes on year, another year several. |
46 |
|
47 |
I see keeping the by laws up to date, and maintaining them as a primary |
48 |
responsibility of the foundation, trustees, and any officers. So I don't |
49 |
think we need to spell out the obvious. But up to the majority really. |
50 |
|
51 |
-- |
52 |
William L. Thomson Jr. |
53 |
amd64/Java/Trustees |
54 |
Gentoo Foundation |