On 4/15/06, Frederic Schutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Bimmler wrote: > > Thanks to everyone for providing explanations... I must admit of being > quite surprised about some of the content of the English translations; I > am not a specialist of English vocabulary about legal matters, but some > sentences indeed look strange. > > > 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, > > Please, please, pretty please, don't do that. The last time I was > involved in the founding assembly for an Association (also involved with > the free software/free content world), we did that, even though the > proposed bylaws had been thoroughly discussed by email beforehand. We > spent _hours_ going over every single word of each article, because > people suddenly got interested in little details they had not noticed > before, it was a _nightmare_. And this was purely a French-speaking > association, not a national-level association with translations in 5 > languages of the bylaws... we should really make sure everything is > correct _before_ we start organising the founding Assembly (and if we > modify the bylaws, we have to ask the Wikimedia Foundation for approval > again). > > But we shall do more rounds of proofreading before the assembly, for sure. > Okay, this is actually what I wanted to say. Don't even know anymore why I said "during founding assembly", I wanted to say "before founding assembly". Sorry... > > 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... > > What happenend for the association mentioned above was that during the > first 3 years, at each regular annual general meeting, we made some > changes to the bylaws, to adapt them to the practical experiences we > made during the year; now, they are quite stabe and well-adapted to the > "real life". This is to be expected, and should not be a problem. > Sure, but we should make them as good as possible... > Frederic
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