I'm pleased to announce that the [new FreeCulture.org bylaws][1] have been approved by our beloved chapters. The bylaws require no quorum and simply that 3/4 of the votes given by registered chapters be in support of their approval. (Earlier today I misunderstood those bylaws and thought that 3/4 of the chapters must actually vote. I'd like to apologize again for that. That's probably the first substantive misinterpretation of the bylaws, and I wonder if it will be the last.)
The votes are: 13 for, 1 against, and 4 votes I couldn't count in the real total. This brings to a close a hard process that I dropped out of because it was so hard, and it should set the stage for more clarity in the role and activity of FreeCulture.org. Here are the votes I received in no particular order: Chapters voting _for_ the bylaws were: UNC Chapel Hill, Swarthmore College, Brown Free Culture, the American University in Cairo, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NYU, Virginia Tech, University of Southern California, Chadwick Free Culture, Seattle University Law Free Culture, Florida State University, Northeastern Free Culture, Free Culture 5C. Chapters voting _against_ the bylaws were: Harvard College. Groups not yet registered with us but sending in votes (all were _for_ ratification) claimed to represent: Northwestern University, Monterrey, University of Chicago. Chapters voting late (all were _for_ ratification): Columbia University. It's been a pleasure receiving your votes, even as I am now embarrassed that I urged some of you to vote under the misunderstanding that a quorum of 3/4 of the chapters was necessary. (One thing I've learned from this, which I secretly already knew, is that the chapter registration system is confusing. Sorry about that, too.) [1]: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Bylaws_RC2 URL: http://freeculture.org/blog/2007/10/01/results-of-freecultureorg-bylaws-voting/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
