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William (wltjr) brought up a couple good points, and in the interest of
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saving time, I'd like to make some comments now instead of later at our
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meeting.
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1. It is more important to have something official in place and be
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able to amend it as we need than to wait for a polished end result.
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Previous experience and our own experience suggest that because we must
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work with email and IRC, the process can take some time.
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2. This means we need a small core we can all agree upon. I think
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that boils down to just a few points. My own examples ---
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A. We have 5 board members (trustees) --- there is no need to name
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them because that information is on file with NM as part of our
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reactivation paperwork. {Following Roy's suggestion} Trustees are
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elected for staggered 2-year terms.
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B. All our business (meetings, voting, etc.) is handled electronically,
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and for voting we either vote like the rest of Gentoo on g.d.o or by
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signed email in the case of members who are not developers. William has
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commented on this item pretty thoroughly.
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C. Until everything in the bylaws is settled, we can amend the bylaws
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by unanimous (majority?) vote of the board. Later this should be
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something like a majority vote of some percentage of the membership.
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D. The Foundation has the 4 officers we now have, appointed by the
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board. They may be board members or Foundation members or not.
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E. Membership. I have distributed a strawman proposal which mostly
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says that we keep doing what we are doing now, except:
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1. It makes clear that we must be able to identify our members and
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keep there contact information on file (both practical and legal
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requirement).
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2. The board can offer membership to "friends or contributors" of
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Gentoo for merit (on nomination, petition, etc. This is not unusual
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- --- ACM used to be like this, and I believe AMS (American Mathematical
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Society) still requires nomination, and I am sure this is the case with
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various British professional societies).
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3. The Board can remove members for inactivity (Practical
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consideration. If you are a member but don't participate, it makes it
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harder for us to satisfy any requirement that a vote requires some
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percentage of the membership to be valid).
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4. Board can remove members for cause (rane's observation). {What I
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set down is written pretty badly, but there are two reasons: Any
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member who is engaged in activities which could damage our non-profit
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standing should not be a member. And any member who is engaged in
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activities intentionally harmful to Gentoo should probably not be a
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member (sort of mirroring ACM's provision for removing members engaged
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in activities harmful to the computing community).}
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F. Some technicalities, like (1) Board meetings are announced in
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advance and are open; (2) Board must hold at least one meeting a year
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in which results of election are formally presented to the membership,
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members may formally bring issues to the board, and so on (this is the
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annual meeting of the Foundation).
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G. Doubtless important things that are not occurring to me.
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Regards,
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Ferris
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- --
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Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@g.o>
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Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Devrel, Userrel, Trustees)
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