Adam Bower <[email protected]> wrote: > I believe (from memory) that to reach quorum the AFFS constitutuion > (which AFFS is now well outside of) requires 20 members to be present > at a meeting. Is there any practical way around this requirement given > the current rules and state of the organisation?
There wasn't a quorum on the dissolution (section 15) and the dissolution could have a quorum of only one-half of the surviving members. http://web.archive.org/web/20070802050236/http://www.affs.org.uk/documents/affs-const.txt [ Marc Eberhard: ] > > I don't know if I'm still a member with outstanding fees or no member > > anymore. As I read it (paragraph 4 a 1), anyone who hasn't kept paying the annual subscription is not a member, like me. > This indeed is something that needs to be answered, Is it possible that > re-opening membership could provide a practical solution to gaining > quorum and holding a meeting? [...] Yes, I think it's possible and probably a simple way. AFFS could even set the fees refundable on attendance of the meeting. However, such a meeting would involve a bit of irritating procedural stuff to appoint an executive to take care of the winding-up or reform. There might be a simpler way to dissolve a defaulting association - I'll ask around. > Is it more practical to wind up AFFS and then restart with a new > organisation that has similar aims but a much more simple constitution > and rules or try to reboot AFFS and drastically change the constitution > which has proven to have effectively crippled it and caused it to drift > into the state that it is now in? I think it's most practical to start successor organisation(s) and *then* dissolve AFFS in their favour. However, I don't think that it was the constitution that crippled AFFS. The constitution was surprisingly buggy and cumbersome for one from a respected national body, but I feel a more cooperative group could have made it work. Regards, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster for hire, statistician and online shop builder for a small worker cooperative http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ (Notice http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html) tel:+44-844-4437-237 _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
