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On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 4:39 PM, Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> wrote: |
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> If folks wanted change they can: |
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> 1) Join the foundation. |
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> 2) Hold a meeting of the members. |
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> 3) Pass whatever resolutions or bylaws they wanted by full member vote. |
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This is of course by design VERY difficult to do, and not at all |
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desirable. This is really a last resort if the sky is falling. |
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As much as I advocate change, I don't think the right approach is to |
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go in and dump some bylaws changes on the board that they don't want, |
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and make them deal with it. |
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> 1) Join the foundation. |
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> 2) Nominate a trustee they trust to drive their agenda (including |
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> themselves) |
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> 3) Vote for trustees on the board. |
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This assumes that anybody cares to do the job, and that is the problem |
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I'm trying to get at. Honestly, I don't see any practical way to do |
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it unless somebody wants to donate the cash to hire a board and a team |
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to fix things. |
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If your goal is to dissolve the Foundation and hand it over to an |
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umbrella org, then if you volunteer to be a Trustee the most likely |
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outcome is that not enough people of like mind will end up in that |
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position, so now you're stuck waiting a year until you can take over |
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the board. Maybe if you were super-organized about it and started in |
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a year with three open slots you could do it in one year. |
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Then you'd need to do a ton of work to actually clean things up, and |
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somebody who wants to get rid of the Foundation probably wouldn't |
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really want to do all that work. Heck, the people who want to keep it |
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around are struggling to do that work. |
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And that is my concern - I think we have a systemic problem in that we |
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basically have enough manpower working on the Foundation to sort-of |
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sustain the status quo as long as nobody looks at it too closely. |
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Actually trying to drive the Foundation into some kind of clean state |
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would take a huge amount of dedication concentrated in a short enough |
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period of time that we resolve issues faster than we create them |
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through our ongoing operations. |
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Rich |
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