Re: [Talk-GB] UK Chapter Directors' Powers

Hi Richard, All, TL;DR Lets move on and try and ignore that fact that I failed to read up on Company Act before throwing an idea out there!! Onwards and upwards :-) I had been trying to look at the way we will work on a day to day basis (which I hope will be as a community) and therefore how the

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Chapter Directors' Powers

Rob, While I understand the thrust you're trying to make towards a more "members have the power" system, setting the bar as low as five members and having a simple "online poll" in lieu of a meeting of the members would have two problems: 1. Entryism would be almost comically easy. It would

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Chapter Directors' Powers

Sorry for replying to the other director-power thread before seeing this more recent one. The decision made in the meeting seems like a sensible one, and goes with Richard's advise to make the AoA very permissive. To help the member-led intention, we should perhaps be aiming to treat the

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Chapter Directors' Powers

Rob Nickerson wrote: > The poll we did last year (?) suggested that the OpenStreetMap UK > community want to be involved in decision making. My suggestion is > that, if this is the culture we want to breed then the Articles should > reflect this. I'm the chairman of a community-owned

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Chapter Directors' Powers

On 23 April 2016 at 16:10, Rob Nickerson wrote: > To breed a culture of Member-led organisation (with Directors as figure > heads) I suggest: > > Directors have all the power > Members can direct the Directors to take/refrain from taking action via a > ORDINARY

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Chapter Directors' Powers

Draft articles: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NbHiUcQjz0SHKlt6BzGp2z_Lo1YH1RmdEZ2kMkpNI04/edit *Rob* On 23 April 2016 at 16:10, Rob Nickerson wrote: > > To breed a culture of Member-led organisation (with Directors as figure > heads) I suggest: > >1.

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Chapter Directors' Powers

On 22/04/16 12:14, Brian Prangle wrote: > > *Full powers*. Standard boilerplate text. Easy to do. Downside is > that removing powers may require alterations to AoA, and furthermore > restricting Directors' powers is quite likely to end up being > contentious. Any such process will

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Chapter Directors' Powers

On 22/04/16 12:14, Brian Prangle wrote: *Full powers*. Standard boilerplate text. Easy to do. Downside is that removing powers may require alterations to AoA, and furthermore restricting Directors' powers is quite likely to end up being contentious. Any such process will appear

[Talk-GB] UK Chapter Directors' Powers

Hi everyone As promised - here's a discussion on the issue Jerry proposed a number of scenarios which we discussed: 1. *Full powers*. Standard boilerplate text. Easy to do. Downside is that removing powers may require alterations to AoA, and furthermore restricting Directors'