Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade said:
> On Tuesday 10 May 2005 11:10 am, Lan Barnes wrote:
>> > How about when their dues run out?
>> >
>> > Even if SDMUG chooses to secede, the individual members are SDCS
>> > members until their dues run out, like it or not.
>
> Andrew's point is well taken; SDMUG membership's SDCS membership
> status is
> valid until the dues expire, regardless of additional memberships in
> other
> organizations.
>
> SDMUG members are SDCS members until such time as their dues run out.
> The
> fact that members of SDMUG have voted to effectively disband the SDMUG
> SIG
> of SDCS and reform SDMUG as its own organization does not dissolve
> SDMUG
> member's membership status in SDCS.
>
> Any SDCS meeting for the purpose of board elections will be required
> to have
> a quorum calculated by including the paid membership of SDMUG. I
> guestimate this number at 70 members.
I disagree. By voting to leave SDCS they also resigned from SDCS in
the bargain. You can't belong to SDCS outside the membership in an
affiliate SIG. That's the rules that SDMUG/SDCS board wrote!
>> If we have enough non-SDMUG board members to replace them in the
>> offices, I would be inclined to ask them to resign from their board
>> officerships next board meeting ... really nicely. They probably
>> would.
>
> At this point, I'm honestly tempted to offer to step in as SDCS
> president.
>
>> I also thing amending the by-laws to permit written proxies (or even
>> email proxies) is a good idea.
>
> Written proxies are one thing. Email proxies should only be
> considered
> acceptable if they are OpenPGP signed, and the signature is trusted.
> It is
> _far_ too easy to fake email, as we should all well be aware.
As I said previously, you can't amend the Bylaws, without a vote,
under the current rules, which require physical presence. You can't
vote on anything without a quorom, minimum of either 100 people, or
20% of the membership.
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