Le Mon, 21 Jan 2008 02:20:43 +0100,
red_alert <red_alert(a)the-psychiatry.ch> a écrit :
Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> Thomas Canniot wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I read the stautes and as promised here are my coments about them.
>>
>> In France, so as to avoid maybe misimpretation, we are used to
>> definded terms in a 0 article. For example, we define Fedora, Open
>> Source Software, mail (postal mail or email?), GNU/Linux, meeting,
>> vote, signature (handwriting or not?) so as they can't be any
>> misunderstanding while reading the statutes. The purpose is as
>> well to avoit problems. For example, if you send e-mail to ask
>> people to join a major meeting, with the vote of the board for
>> example, and that it is mentionned in the statutes that a postal
>> mail will be sent to ask people to come to the meeting, the
>> meeting and all its content could be canceled because the statutes
>> were not respected. Just my 2 cents.
>>
>> 4.1 "written request" > if someday you decide to permit people to
>> fill an online formular on the web to subscribe to the
>> association, their application won't be valid. Don't go into
>> details like this, or define that "written" means for you that you
>> assume it is also "written" when you fill up a form on da web.
>> Same for 4.3
>>
>> I see ntohing to add but at the 8.4 article. You should describe
>> the tasks of the members of the board. What does the president,
>> the vice president, the treasurer and the secretary do ? In fact,
>> always the same, if some people became inactive, he could not be
>> dismissed because of his inaction, as the statutes do not tell
>> what he has to do. We had this problem in a lug in the North of
>> France... this was damn crap.
>>
>> I don't like this idea of quorum ... it could also prevent the
>> association to work fluently in the future. If people don't come
>> to the meeting, nor expresses any word about it, it is their
>> problem, and the association should not suffer from it. 7.4
>>
>> I think that's all :)
>>
>
>
> Others, please reply with your comments as I'll be watching this
> thread very closely and adjust the Statutes with some of the
> additions Thomas made unless I hear otherwise.
I'm not sure If I understand that right, Thomas - would you give the
GMM the quorum even if there's not half the members present? I'd say
that's pretty dangerous.
Well I don't think so... I think an association lives thanks to the
people who feels concerned by it. If more than half of the members are
away, it would be a problem and maybe you couldn't held a meeting
before waiting for cleaning up your member base.
And don't forget there are proxies, normally you could be able to write
down on a paper and say : "i trust this person he can vote for me" or
"As i can't come, vote for this people / I agree the decision being
made".
Still, I understand your point that organizing a second event is
contraproductive. I'd say expand 7.4 to say that there must be a
online (maybe over ML or a web-form) poll on the date and place of
the GMM. Maybe we should also add that the meeting is only taking
place if over 50% of the members announced their participation
previously (or maybe 52% to be sure). It's very likely that 50% are
at the meeting then and that no second meeting needs to be organized.
You could. The biggest lug in France sends email to you regularly so as
to vote online if you can't come.
On all other points, I agree on what MrTom said.
Regards
red
Cheers,
Thomas