Hola,
I added my comments in [MMEEKS: foo !] type brackets as David has done
himself; directly into the wiki; there were a few things that didn't
belong in there though:
Firstly - I'm really hopeful reading this; it seems we're getting
somewhere rather good with these bylaws, and I'm nearly happy :-)
I silently replaced the 'bye-laws' with 'bylaws' incidentally, and
expanded on what 'STV' means (many don't know).
I also really liked the Membership section preamble, most helpful; I
guess we also need some spiel about the relative dislike of formal
'Roles' in the project in the Member's Roles.
I do not believe we should specify exactly four paid employees - I
suggest we specify the two [ though even those I think are
implementation details ], and do not mandate that they -must- be paid.
With regard to Sponors - GNOME had the practise of allowing like minded
non-profits (such as Debian / SPI, the FSF etc.) to join the advisory
board without paying fees - and they have had a very positive effect
over the lifetime of that project. I suggest we add a similar section.
Then of course there is the voting, which is still rather complex:
On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 00:37 +0100, Bernhard Dippold wrote:
> "... the nine candidates having won the highest number of votes are
> deemed to have been elected ..."
>
> If all nine Directors are elected at once, how should the "renewal by
> half each year" work?
Quite - I'd really like everyone to be elected at once - it simplifies
the work of the MC, and the structure of the community. I don't know
that we expanded on the role of deputies in the document either
incidentally - but hopefully they are another asset for ensuring
continuity ...
Apart from that - I think we're in a really good place here; great work
Charles / David & all ...
Regards,
Michael.
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