Your suggestions below pose a dilemma for me because of the time frame.
As you're aware, in preparation for this inaugural meeting in 2 days'
time, the preparatory process to arrive at an acceptable constitution
went through 7 draft revisions, most of the work was done by the protem
committee and somewhere along the way, draft4 was uploaded to this list
from 7th April announced to the list on the 8th April and made available
to everyone for seven (7) days for their input. Procedures were laid out
in my e-mail to the list dated April 8th when I announced the upload of
the draft constitution. All accetable input and changes made had been
documented in the build status in build history and every draft is
available. As I said repeatedly the constitution is a living document
but somewhere along the line for drafting it, there has to be a cutoff
point for acceptance of input. Can I suggest that these be proposed for
amendments after OSHCA's registration i.e. during subsequent AGMs?
Molly
Will Ross wrote:
>Some last minute suggestions.
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>ARTICLE 1 - NAME
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>The Organisation shall be known as Open Source Health Care Alliance,
>hereafter referred to as "OSCHA", and shall be registered in Malaysia.
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>ARTICLE 3 - CHAPTERS
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>Why is South America omitted? This collection of regions seems
>complex. The boundaries between regions is not obvious from the
>text. Why not use the same 6 global regions as FIFA?
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>ARTICLE 5 - MEMBERSHIP
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>5.2 - The Committee when rejecting an application SHALL provide a
>reason.
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>ARTICLE 8 - COMMITTEE
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>9.8 - In the event of the death or resignation of a member of the
>Committee, the Committee shall have the power to APPOINT any other
>member of OSHCA to fill the vacancy until the next annual general
>meeting, but the member shall have the right to decline to be
>appointed to the Committee without resigning from OSHCA.
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>ARTICLE 11 - FINANCIAL PROVISIONS
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>11.2 - change "any officer or servant of OSHCA" to "any officer of
>OSHCA or other volunteer"
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>ARTICLE 14 - INTERPRETATION
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>14.2 -- (improved wording) Except when contrary to or inconsistent
>with a policy previously established by a general meeting, decisions
>of the Committee shall be binding on all members of OSHCA unless or
>until countermanded by a resolution at a general meeting.
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>ARTICLE 16 - PROHIBITIONS
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>16.4 - I don't understand this. Are Malaysian students who are
>over 21 prohibited from joining OSHCA unless they have prior written
>approval from the University?
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>ARTICLE 17 - AMENDMENTS
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>I would like to see a requirement that the exact wording of any
>constitutional amendment must circulated ahead of a meeting. I fear
>the opportunity for the general meeting to compose and pass a
>constitutional amendment without prior circulation to the larger
>membership.
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>Respectfully submitted,
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>On Apr 21, 2006, at 10:07 AM, Molly Cheah wrote:
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>>Hi everyone,
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>>I would like to announce the following:
>>1) 25th April 2006 will be the OSHCA Inaugural Meeting Day. The
>>form for
>>participating in the inaugural meeting will be uploaded to the files
>>section of this list by 24th April. I will provide the procedures for
>>participating in this inaugural meeting by tomorrow as we need to
>>finalise the representation for Latin America & Caribbean which is
>>still
>>outstanding.
>>2. The proposed OSHCA constitution (latest copy includes the OSHCA
>>logo
>>under Article 19), the OSHCA regions list and the OSHCA country
>>list by
>>HDI (Human Development Index) are now available for you to
>>download. The
>>regions list essentially provides information of the region your
>>country
>>belongs to. Article 6 of the constitution provides for membership fees
>>which is based on the principles of equity and affordability and
>>the HDI
>>list gives information on which category your country belongs to in
>>the
>>HDI list.
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>>Please note that the protem committee had gone through 7 drafts of the
>>constitution which was also made available on this list for 7 days for
>>comments. However, the constitution itself is a living document.
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>>For the purpose of registering OSHCA all those who wish to be OSHCA
>>members need to agree to the constitution, agree to the resolutions
>>(this will be uploaded by the 24th April) and provide minimal personal
>>information all of which will be made available in the said form.
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>>As preparatory to the process, I suggest that you look through the
>>constitution to familiarize with the Articles to understand your
>>commitment if you chose to be a member of OSHCA.
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>>Rgds,
>>Molly
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