Hello Florian, Le Mon, 27 Feb 2012 12:32:42 +0100, Florian Effenberger <[email protected]> a écrit :
> Hi, > > Charles-H.Schulz wrote on 2012-02-06 18:25: > > > Private sending first. Attached are a set of similar yet simplified > > community bylaws. What was modified: > > sorry for being so late on this, Charles. Replying in public, since I > think the topic is interesting to everyone. > > Our statutes (http://documentfoundation.org/statutes.pdf) foresee at > various places, that we have so-called Community Bylaws. Although the > same term is used, it is not necessarily the same as we have > currently in the wiki. The wiki page of the same title served as > basis for the statutes, so some parts have already been incorporated. > > The main points in the statutes where the Community Bylaws are > mentioned are the following: > > - § 10 III 1: "Further details on admittance or exclusion from the > board of trustees shall be regulated in the community bylaws, which > are enacted by the board of directors." > > - § 12 V: "Details on admittance and exclusion from the membership > committee shall be regulated in the bylaws which are enacted by the > board of directors." > > I think we should start with a blank document that only contains > regulations as outlined above. It does not harm if we add some more > to this document. However, keep in mind the following things: > > 1. Nothing that's already mentioned in the statutes should be > mentioned again in the bylaws. > I disagree ; we need clear bylaws that are easily understandable by everyone. > 2. Regulations in the bylaws cannot be contradictory to the statutes. Sure that is very important. > > 3. After the initial set-up, per § 10 III 2 the board can *not* just > change them. We need a vote by the members, and looking at the > participation rate during the LibOCon voting, we should not expect > that everyone replies upon first request. ;-) But it makes sense anyway :-) > > So, my proposal would be to start with a lightweight Community > Bylaws. Other "best practices" might fit into separate documents that > are not subject to such requirements. Well, I disagree. I think that if you look at our present bylaws they're mostly valid but only specific things need to be modified and simplified. Best, Charles. > > Florian > -- Charles-H. Schulz Member of the Board of Directors, The Document Foundation. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
