Hello everyone, Following our confcall of Saturday, I would first like to express my apologies for my message on the status of our community bylaws.
At the moment our community bylaws are *almost* good. Some people here and elsewhere have expressed a strong opinion on the clause on racism and xenophobia; it will be replaced according to the discussion that have taken place here. Much in the same sense, the community bylaws are expected to be amended in the following months in a minimal way -and mostly for formal grounds- because of the legal and formal requirements induced by the incorporation of our foundation. I cannot at this stage point to anything specific, but there might be a change in names, for instance, "Board of Directors" might be renamed "Board of Trustees" because that's how the local law would want it, etc. This does leave us with the following status: - Community Bylaws can be, after modification of the racism clause, be considered as the "Final Draft", a sort of Release Candidate; it's almost final, but not quite. - We will enable these bylaws just after we've properly incorporated and made any relevant formal change to them. Until then, we continue as we have done before, but obviously, what we already wrote can be progressively implemented, and taken inspiration from; we will see more and more teams being formed, etc. - It is not -unless it's absolutely necessary (note the "absolutely" in my sentence) desired to have people coming up with more and more modifications or points. Our bylaws are very much stable at the moment and we won't rewrite them with some new ideas. Please accept my apologies for the confusion on this topic, and please bear with us for some more time until we have completed the legal stage of the community development. Thank you, -- Charles-H. Schulz Founder & Steering Committee Member, The Document Foundation. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org List archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/steering-discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
