On 4/14/06, Frederic Schutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jürg Studer wrote: > > >>> The minutes are to be made available to the Association members not > >>> more than two months after a decision has been made, otherwise the > >>> committee constitutes itself. > >> I understand the general idea, but my dictionaries do not know any > >> meaning of the work "constitute" that would fit this sentence (neither > >> does the website http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=constitute). > > > > maybe this helps: constituer > > Hum... no, it does not really help... Looking at the German text, it may > also be the word "otherwise" that confuses me: I don't really see how > the two parts of the sentence are related. > > Are we saying that the comitee must provide the minutes, but that > otherwise, it is free to get organised as it wants ? > It's definitely mixed up: First sentence = Committee (hey, by the way, why are we always using the term commitee instead of board?) must send its minutes to its members at the latest 2 months after. (Full stop). Then there comes another sentence, meaning "The Committee does "organise" it self, i.e. on the first associations, roles will be distributed (president is voted separatly by member's association, but roles like treasurer, secretary, vice-president, PR etc. are chosen by the board/committee itself)." This doesn't have anything to do with the last sentence, I don't even see why it's in this clause/part of the paragraph, the german "Im übrigen" which was translated into "Otherwise", was somehow intended to indicate "This last sentence has not so much to do with the other sentences here" but the "otherwise" does not show this anymore. My proposal: move the "otherwise the committee constitutes itself" (german: Im übrigen etc.) away from §10.3 to §10.1 (The committee consists of a president and 4 – 6 further members), there it fits much better. Regards Michael PS: I hope we have not any more strange things in the bylaws, we may have to make a final proofreading session at the founding assembly, because when we have once voted the bylaws, we cannot just fix these things quickly but have to call together the members assembly each time... > Frederic > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediach-l mailing list > Wikimediach-l@Wikipedia.org > http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediach-l >
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