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From: "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] RFC: Expanding Foundation Bylaws, section 4.9 Termination from Membership
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2018 17:21:31
Message-Id: 5118182.kjWKZMSpfL@pinacolada
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] RFC: Expanding Foundation Bylaws, section 4.9 Termination from Membership by Matthew Thode
1 Am Donnerstag, 8. Februar 2018, 23:39:21 CET schrieb Matthew Thode:
2 >
3 > > Membership may be terminated by a majority vote of the board of trustees.
4 > >
5 > > No explanation required. Right now, it sounds like the trustees may need
6 > > to
7 > > justify that the member is acting contrary to the purpose(s) of the
8 > > Foundation. When really, no justification should be required (it just
9 > > opens
10 > > the door for endless argument, grumpiness, and thus more likely to lead to
11 > > legal action). At the very least, it should say that the trustees can
12 > > remove anyone *they feel* (ie. based on *their opinion*, which can't be
13 > > argued) is acting poorly. That removes the possibility of debate.
14 >
15 > Agreed, this is the only improvement I see us making to that specific
16 > bylaw.
17
18 I agree that this modification of the bylaws makes sense.
19
20 (Just that I'll mercilessly get back to these e-mails here when I'm ever asked
21 to publicly justify a comrel decision again.)
22
23 --
24 Andreas K. Hüttel
25 dilfridge@g.o
26 Gentoo Linux developer
27 (council, toolchain, perl, libreoffice, comrel)

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