Re: #06: Public Resolutions [CALL FOR VOTES]

[ chairman hat on ]

Up for discussion:
06 Resolutions should be public.

This is now up for discussion again. A brief history:

* It was first put up for discussion May 26 at
http://lists.spi-inc.org/pipermail/spi-bylaws/2003/000126.html

* David Graham made a draft proposal at
http://lists.spi-inc.org/pipermail/spi-bylaws/2003/000160.html
that just needed some "wrapping".

[ chairman hat off ]

I intend to provide that wrapping and have something we can vote on shortly.

[ chairman hat on ]

The below bylaws amendment is up for vote among bylaws committee members.

Committee members, please reply to this message with your vote. Yes or no
only, please.

This vote will end one week from today or when three yes or three no
votes are received, since the outcome will then be certain.

This takes David's proposal, and adds qualifiers stating where
it is to be inserted into the bylaws and slightly fixes the reference in the
second paragraph.

[ proposal follows ]

The following text shall be inserted after the last paragraph of the
"Resolutions" section of Article 5:

Any resolution passed by the Board of Directors of this organisation may,
with the absolute unanimous consent of all Board members, be kept
confidential from the membership and the public. If any Board member
decides at a future date that the resolution should no longer be
confidential, unanimous consent will be considered to no longer exist and
the resolution will henceforth be available to the membership.

No resolution may be considered enacted or enforceable until it is either
available to the entire contributing membership or the Board has
unanimously agreed to keep it confidential under the above procedure.

I vote YES.

On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 02:57:16PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> [ chairman hat on ]
>
> The below bylaws amendment is up for vote among bylaws committee members.
>
> Committee members, please reply to this message with your vote. Yes or no
> only, please.
>
> This vote will end one week from today or when three yes or three no
> votes are received, since the outcome will then be certain.
>
> This takes David's proposal, and adds qualifiers stating where
> it is to be inserted into the bylaws and slightly fixes the reference in the
> second paragraph.
>
> [ proposal follows ]
>
> The following text shall be inserted after the last paragraph of the
> "Resolutions" section of Article 5:
>
> Any resolution passed by the Board of Directors of this organisation may,
> with the absolute unanimous consent of all Board members, be kept
> confidential from the membership and the public. If any Board member
> decides at a future date that the resolution should no longer be
> confidential, unanimous consent will be considered to no longer exist and
> the resolution will henceforth be available to the membership.
>
> No resolution may be considered enacted or enforceable until it is either
> available to the entire contributing membership or the Board has
> unanimously agreed to keep it confidential under the above procedure.
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Spi-bylaws mailing list
> Spi-bylaws(at)lists(dot)spi-inc(dot)org
> http://lists.spi-inc.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/spi-bylaws

On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 02:57:16PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> The following text shall be inserted after the last paragraph of the
> "Resolutions" section of Article 5:
>
> Any resolution passed by the Board of Directors of this organisation may,
> with the absolute unanimous consent of all Board members, be kept
> confidential from the membership and the public. If any Board member
> decides at a future date that the resolution should no longer be
> confidential, unanimous consent will be considered to no longer exist and
> the resolution will henceforth be available to the membership.
>
> No resolution may be considered enacted or enforceable until it is either
> available to the entire contributing membership or the Board has
> unanimously agreed to keep it confidential under the above procedure.

Yes.

--
Taral <taral(at)taral(dot)net>
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I vote in favour or this amendment.

---
David "cdlu" Graham
Guelph, Ontario
cdlu(at)railfan(dot)ca

On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, John Goerzen wrote:

> [ chairman hat on ]
>
> The below bylaws amendment is up for vote among bylaws committee members.
>
> Committee members, please reply to this message with your vote. Yes or no
> only, please.
>
> This vote will end one week from today or when three yes or three no
> votes are received, since the outcome will then be certain.
>
> This takes David's proposal, and adds qualifiers stating where
> it is to be inserted into the bylaws and slightly fixes the reference in the
> second paragraph.
>
> [ proposal follows ]
>
> The following text shall be inserted after the last paragraph of the
> "Resolutions" section of Article 5:
>
> Any resolution passed by the Board of Directors of this organisation may,
> with the absolute unanimous consent of all Board members, be kept
> confidential from the membership and the public. If any Board member
> decides at a future date that the resolution should no longer be
> confidential, unanimous consent will be considered to no longer exist and
> the resolution will henceforth be available to the membership.
>
> No resolution may be considered enacted or enforceable until it is either
> available to the entire contributing membership or the Board has
> unanimously agreed to keep it confidential under the above procedure.
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Spi-bylaws mailing list
> Spi-bylaws(at)lists(dot)spi-inc(dot)org
> http://lists.spi-inc.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/spi-bylaws
>

On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 02:57:16PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> [ chairman hat on ]
>
> The below bylaws amendment is up for vote among bylaws committee members.
>
> Committee members, please reply to this message with your vote. Yes or no
> only, please.

I vote YES, although it is no longer numerically necessary.

- Jimmy Kaplowitz
jimmy(at)debian(dot)org

The below proposal has passed and voting has finished, the outcome being
certain.

Taral, you can go ahead and update your bylaws page.

The following people voted YES:
John Goerzen
Taral
David Graham
Jimmy Kaplowitz

There were zero NO votes heard.

The status page at http://gopher.quux.org:70/devel/bylaws/status.html will
be updated shortly.

-- John

On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 02:57:16PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> [ chairman hat on ]
>
> The below bylaws amendment is up for vote among bylaws committee members.
>
> Committee members, please reply to this message with your vote. Yes or no
> only, please.
>
> This vote will end one week from today or when three yes or three no
> votes are received, since the outcome will then be certain.
>
> This takes David's proposal, and adds qualifiers stating where
> it is to be inserted into the bylaws and slightly fixes the reference in the
> second paragraph.
>
> [ proposal follows ]
>
> The following text shall be inserted after the last paragraph of the
> "Resolutions" section of Article 5:
>
> Any resolution passed by the Board of Directors of this organisation may,
> with the absolute unanimous consent of all Board members, be kept
> confidential from the membership and the public. If any Board member
> decides at a future date that the resolution should no longer be
> confidential, unanimous consent will be considered to no longer exist and
> the resolution will henceforth be available to the membership.
>
> No resolution may be considered enacted or enforceable until it is either
> available to the entire contributing membership or the Board has
> unanimously agreed to keep it confidential under the above procedure.
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Spi-bylaws mailing list
> Spi-bylaws(at)lists(dot)spi-inc(dot)org
> http://lists.spi-inc.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/spi-bylaws