On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 01:21:53PM -0800, Valerie Bubb Fenwick wrote: > On Thu, 25 Feb 2010, Edward Pilatowicz wrote: > >i apologize in advance if the questions below seem stupid or have > >already been answered somewhere else. > > > >On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:03:41AM -0800, Valerie Bubb Fenwick wrote: > >> > >>4. New Constitution > >>The OGB has had a long review period (starting September 2009), > >>of the new draft for the constitution. We started with last year's > >>draft and incorporated all of the feedback from the community. > >> > >>We believe this new document simplifies and clarifies the community > >>governance to match our actual practice and realistic expectations. > >> > >>This does not require changes to the Charter. > >> > >>All members of the OGB unanimously recommend you approve this change. > >>To succeed this time, we 190 pass votes; your participation is vital. > >> > >>Please review the document here: > >>http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+ogb/Proposed+Constitution > >> > > > >for those of us that haven't been following the constitution revision > >process, are there diffs available of proposed changes? > > This is very different than the currently active constitution, so > diffs are not available. You can see the old constitution here: > http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+ogb/governance > > Is that what you're asking? >
if the delta is so great that diffs don't make sense then that's fine. thanks for the link to the old one. i see that the new constitution is quite a bit shorter than the old one. that seems good. is there an high level overview the major changes anywhere? > >>5. Meeting of Members > >>Under the existing Constitution, we have to gather the voting > >>membership on irc://irc.freenode.net/#opensolaris-meeting from > >>noon PT Feb 25th until quorum is reached. That means we need > >>everyone with a Core Contributor grant to join. If you aren't > >>a core contributor, you are not required to attend, but are > >>certainly welcome to. > >> > >>Please log into the IRC channel and announce yourself in the > >>format > >>"Hello, I am <your name> and an OpenSolaris Core Contributor. My > >>OpenSolaris ID is <your ID>" > >> > >>There is a bot monitoring the channel and recording these > >>announcements as well as all channel discussion. > >>http://www.spcoast.com/irclogs/opensolaris-meeting > >> > >>Feel free to use the IRC channel to ask, or indeed answer, > >>any questions about the election. The current OGB will > >>be present throughout the meeting. Current and past > >>OGB members can be identified as channel operators on > >>the IRC channel. > >> > >>OGB members will be available periodically throughout the > >>meeting. > >> > >>The quorum we need to meet in order for the election to > >>go forward is 126. > >> > > > >i'm unclear as to what the purpose of this meeting is. (aside from just > >reaching quorum and optionally being able to ask questions which could > >just as easily be sent to this email alias.) could someone please > >clarify why we're having this meeting? > > It's required by Article 5 of the current constitution. We cannot > move forward with the election until we've met quorum in the election. > > The new constitution does not have this requirement. > and it seems that this meeting enables us to have a vote to approve the new constitution. seems like a good enough reason to join. ed
