Dear Foundation, we worked on the bylaws and this is the current status. Please find the current bylaws here: <http://www.gnome.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/bylaws.pdf>. I converted that PDF to reStructuredText and you can find the current bylaws in that format here <http://people.gnome.org/~tobiasmue/bylaws2012/bylaws-2002.rst>. (This list only allows attachments <40kB :-\ )
The membership voted to change the bylaws several times since 2002, but the actual bylaws were never updated. Also, some things work now differently than a decade ago. We came up with a changed version which you can find here <http://people.gnome.org/~tobiasmue/bylaws2012/bylaws-2012.rst>. The diff of the changes is here <http://people.gnome.org/~tobiasmue/bylaws2012/bylaws-2002-2012.diff>. We think we have incorporated all the changes that should be made. But we'd obviously love if people check whether it's actually right. I suggest that interested people check whether the translation to .rst was correct and then go through the changes. In case there is any need to discuss, we do it here. We will hopefully end up with a version that works for everyone. At some stage, we need to officially give 21 days notice of the change of the bylaws as per Article XVII of the current bylaws. Then people have time to object the changes. If 5% of the membership (currently that would be around 20) object, we will vote on that. I will clearly announce once we are in that stage. Let's try to start the notice period in one month from now though. So if you have any changes to the changes, make yourself heard until the 30th September 2012. Cheers, Tobi _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list