repeat of the referendum in September
after the Membership committee has had a chance to downgrade the
defined-inactive contributing members to non-contributing.
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On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 4:35 PM, Joshua D. Drake
wrote:
> On 07/04/2016 08:52 AM, David Graham wrote:
>> *Article 3, Section 8: Quorum
>> *
>> "Members entitled to cast a majority of the total number of votes
>> entitled to be cast thereat shall constitute a quoru
This is a huge improvement, thanks Bdale.
I have a number of comments as I read through it. I have not had a chance
to read the whole thread yet so my apologies if some of these points have
already been covered.
*Article 3, Section 8: Quorum*
"Members entitled to cast a majority of the total num
Hilmar Lapp wrote:
>> Awesome! -hilmar
>
> Right. So instead of 37,510.86 we don't currently use for anything,
> there are now 47,510.86 in the bank we are not likely to use for
> anything either. Or did I misunderstand?
Even if that were the case, I'd argue that having $47K in contingency (whic
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:35 PM, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> Hi.
>
> As per SPI resolution 2009-11-04.jmd.1 (Contributing membership
> expiry)[0] we are in the process of cleaning up the SPI active membership
> list. Our records indicate that you did not vote in the SPI Board
> Election held in Ju
On Thu, 11 Nov 2010, Ian Jackson wrote:
I give up.
You're all a bunch of patriarchal reactionaries.
That is somehow ironic given the proposal this comment abandons.
D
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enue both retain the right to eject people
at their sole discretion. What you're asking for is parameters for that
discretion to replace the existing standard of reasonable necessity.
It isn't that organisers cannot already remove such people, you'd just
like to make sure that the
acting as an SPI
member organisation commits to doing what it can to not put itself and
therefore SPI in a position of liability, and we strongly recommend that
you only hold your conferences in countries where the rule of law applies.
D
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On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, John Goerzen wrote:
I come down firmly only the side of Adrian on this.
Amen. I would boycot events which try to be stricter than the law or
which try to make themselves be a judge; there is too much room for
error with possibly disastrous results.
The law various from co
follow the law." That code of
conduct exists. In fact, it is called "the law."
David
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Bill,
On the off-chance that this is not an April Fools resolution, as a French
speaking member of SPI's board, I disagree with everything except
preambles 1, 2, and 3.
The dictionary defines liaison as:
3. Specifically: A process of communication between parts of
an organizati
> David Graham writes ("Re: Meeting log for 2008-09-17"):
>> On Fri, 19 Sep 2008, MJ Ray wrote:
>>> Please don't permit AOB at meetings.
>>
>> We've been down this road, we've had this argument.
>
> Oh, and: we had this argument and you
On Fri, 19 Sep 2008, MJ Ray wrote:
> Please don't permit AOB at meetings.
We've been down this road, we've had this argument. AOB is important for
the function of the board and banning it is an utterly useless and
counter-productive artificial barrier.
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t;
88 * Candidate L "MJ Ray"
88 * Candidate F "Joshua D. Drake"
88 * Candidate B "Luk Claes"
87 * Candidate K "Martin 'Joey' Schulze"
87 * Candidate C "Joerg Jaspert"
86 * Candidate D "David Graham"
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government lobbying to conference organisation and to generally promote,
foster and advance interest in computers and computer software by all
available means and methods. Thanks to our charter, we can adopt member
projects who do any of these things.
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Anthony Towns wrote:
&
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> MJ Ray wrote:
> > "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> I plan on actively recruiting new projects. There are many, many FOSS
> >> projects out there that could use SPI services, that have no idea who we
> >> are.
> >
> > There are also many
On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Further my experience is that if 15% of a particular group is unhappy,
> > usually the person made a good choice. 40%? Not so much.
>
> If I were the DPL I would consider my position very carefully if a
> recall petition even got enough signatures to go to
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Josh Berkus wrote:
> All,
>
> We have a calendar correction to make.
>
> The current schedule of SPI elections for the Board is this:
>
> 2007: 6 seats
>
> 2008: 3 seats
>
> 2009: 0 seats
>
> 2010: 6 seats
>
> etc...
>
> I think you can see some problems with this skewed rotatio
On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, Bruce Perens wrote:
> Russ Nelson wrote:
> > The current board may feel differently
> I last proposed a motion to give the domain OSI in April 2005. I think
> it was not seconded.
It was addressed at the July 26th, 2005 meeting:
http://www.spi-inc.org/secretary/minutes/200507
30th - I will be out of
town the 29th). The officers will be selected at the next board meeting on
August 1st, 2006.
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ularly. That should be
at approximately UTC midnight tonight. That is the process.
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an Officer position. Please try to let me know
before then if you intend to seek an Officer position.
The Officers will be selected by the Board by a method of its choosing at
the meeting of the 1st, as per the resolution governing this election.
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Once again, this is a reminder that the annual meeting is tomorrow,
Tuesday the 11th of July, at 19:00 UTC in #spi on irc.spi-inc.org.
Agenda has not moved, but should be read by all board members:
http://www.spi-inc.org/secretary/agenda/
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again, the current election nominations and associated information
are available at:
http://www.spi-inc.org/secretary/votes/vote5/nominations/
Nominations close at 23:59:59 UTC on Thursday, July 13th.
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ave a look at the nominations.
Thanks.
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