On 26/01/12 12:21, Bryen M Yunashko wrote:
On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 11:32 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
I think that you are putting the cart before the horse.
Get rid of the Board, and the membership committee, and your problem is solved.
Furthermore, what benefits does "membership" bestows on you? The ability to vote for the Board? Woo-hoo.
BC
While primarily the voting has been for board candidates, there are other applications as well. We had a vote by the membership for strategy and we will perceivably require some membership voting when the Foundation is to be established, presumably this year.
Membership is also an issue regarding the Foundation and legal requirements for defining its membership in order to qualify for NFP status.
Bryen M Yunashko
Right - and here lies the crux of the "problem": there is no legal entity in existence and so there is really no Board since there is nothing to "board", so to speak. Which is what I was indicating by stating "putting the cart before the horse". When the Foundation is established it will have to be registered and such a registration needs to be done under some Law of the country where this Foundation is being formed (here in Australia it is the Associations Incorporation Act). Such a law spells out all the requirements required to form such an Association/Foundation including members of the Committee/Board, elections, rights of members, financial control and books of accounts, etc etc etc. I remember all this being already discussed a few years ago. So, nothing has really been done about it in all this time - but then Novell is no longer the owner of openSUSE so the goal posts have been moved yet again :-) . BC -- But when you take arms from people, then you start to upset them, you show you do not trust them because you are frightened or cagey. Niccolo Machiavelli -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org