Hello André, Le Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:13:04 +0100, "Andre Schnabel" <[email protected]> a écrit :
> Hi, > > as we are currently preparing the legal documents for the Foundation > in Germany, we found some minor inconsistencies in the bylaws. > > I'd like to ask the Steering Commitee, if we should do some > modifications to our bylwas, so that the meaning is more clear. > > The issues we found are: > > 1st - definition of BoD deputies > > The bylaws only mention that "Each member of the BoD must appoint one > deputy ..." There is no obligation, that a deputy needs to be a > community member. There might be a risk, that BoD votes are > influenced by non-TDF members. I think, we just implicitly meant that > deputies should be TDF members, but did not exlicitly write this. > > > 2nd - "Provisions Concerning Possible Conflicts of Interest" > > In this paragraph we list 3 rules to prevent possible conflicts. Each > of the rule is written in a way that it would justify BoD's action if > the rule is not followed. But the sentence "In the event of a > contravention of the above three (3) rules, ..." seems to suggest > that all three rules need to be contravened at the same time to > trigger BoD's action. > > I'd guess, we meant that a contravention of any of the rules would > call the BoD to action. > > > 3rd - quorum for "Solemn Address" > > There is one sencence which suggests that Addresses *should* be signed > by 30% of active members: "The Solemn Address should ... be > undersigned by thirty per cent (30%) of the Community's active > Members;..." But the second part of this sentence tells, that the MC > "must formally validate that the thirty-per-cent (30%) quorum is > fulfilled." > > So - the quorum seems to be mandatory but this is not written in the > first sentence. > > > > All these issues would be quite easy to fix (imho). We just need to > agree ;) (I can write the suggestions after some time of disussion > and then call for a vote.) > > regards, > > André > I agree that these are inconsistencies and to your analysis, so +1 for these minor fixes. Best, -- Charles-H. Schulz Membre du Comité exécutif The Document Foundation. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/steering-discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
