On Wednesday 10 August 2016 22:59:32 Tim Brocklehurst via Hampshire wrote: > Hello everybody, > > Sparked by the imminent renewal of the HantsLUG domain name, the committee > has recently been discussing the future of the group. If there was > significant mailing list traffic we would just renew it without concern, > however, as there has been very little traffic, the question of whether > the LUG should continue has been raised. We are therefore calling a > meeting to determine the future of the LUG. A copy of the constitution is > available on the website, should you wish to view it. > > In order to register to vote at the meeting, please e-mail > webmas...@hantslug.org.uk with subject "votereg" please include your name > in the e-mail. > > Details of the date and location will follow in a second e-mail. I would > urge everyone to attend if at all possible. Ultimately, it's your LUG and > up to you to decide it's future. > > If this meeting is not quorate (at least eight voting members, or ten > percent (10%) of the total voting membership, whichever is the greater) > the committee will hold a further general meeting to decide what happens > next. > > We have three options (this will form the agenda for the meeting): > [snip] > > For either option 2 or 3, no funds will be retained. This does not prevent > long-term purchase of domain name and services by the current committee, > prior to the funds being distributed. For distribution, the following is > suggested: > > a) Nominations for suitable open-source projects/LUGs/Makerspaces etc. are > called for, over a period of a week. A list of all nominations will be > posted by the chairman. Nominations must be linux-related, open-source or > charitable, and not for personal gain; makerspaces are acceptable. > > b) The members vote for their preferred nomination (1 vote per member) by > e-mail. Over the course of one week. > > c) The votes are counted and the remaining LUG funds are split between the > top 5 nominations by percentage of votes. This will be announced on the > mailing list.
Might I suggest that the equipment should be distributed by a similar system? Lisi > > > Best regards, > > Tim Brocklehurst > > -- > Hampshire Linux User Group Chairman -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
