Neil Schneider wrote: > > [A bunch of stuff about the separation of SDMUG from SDCS that I > snipped.]
The basic questions are: 1) Has SDMUG been officially separated? 2) If yes, are SDMUG members still SDCS members? If SDMUG has not been officially separated, then all of this is moot. I contend that SDMUG is still a SIG of SDCS. Since I cannot cut/n/paste from http://www.sdcs.org/SIG-Guidelines.pdf please forgive any typos from transcription. Under ___S_e_p_a_r_a_t_i_o_n_ _o_f_ _a_ _S_I_G_ _f_r_o_m_ _S_D_C_S__ it says: 2) The SIG's authorized representative shall notify the SDCS Board in writing at a regularly scheduled SDCS Board meeting of the SIG's intention to sever its relationship with SDCS. The next regularly scheduled SDCS Board meeting is late May. The vote was taken early May. SDMUG is still a SIG, and all SIG members are still SDCS members. SDMUG is still the largest SIG, and the location of the SDCS Board elections. The SIG Guidelines are ambiguous as to when the separation is official. However, it cannot be before that written notice is given. Also note that it says regularly scheduled board meeting. This means that a special SDCS Board meeting cannot be called for this purpose. There is in paragraph 3) stipulations that the SIG must turn over all assets to the SDCS within 30 days. It does not say that that is when the SIG is officially severed from SDCS, though I would tend to read it that way. Since SDMUG is still part of SDCS, the rest of any argument is moot. The only thing we can do is press for the overdue elections to be held. I wonder of the Nominating Committee was formed back in January? Did we have anyone on the board back then? http://www.sdcs.org/Officers.html only lists eight out of 13 board members. None of those names are familiar. Now, if elections are postponed until after the SDMUG separation, then things get interesting. As Neil pointed out, board members must remain members of a SDCS. There are a few ways to be an SDCS member. One is regular membership, the other is via membership via a SIG. I would tend to read that everyone is a member via a SIG, unless dues were paid directly to the SDCS. There are also lifetime, honourary, and corporate members. These I do not think apply to the current set of SDCS Board members. That said, as soon as SDMUG goes away, all members of the Board that were in SDMUG and only SDMUG are no longer eligible to hold Board seats. That could leave a very empty Board. It would also make some very angry ex-board members for them to be told this when SDMUG turns over their assets. If I were being mean and evil, I would verify (through the monthly SIG reports to the Board) that their membership is limited to only SDMUG. I would ask if SDMUG was officially separated from SDCS, and upon hearing yes, I would then inform them that their tenure as SDCS members and members of the SDCS Board was then nullified. That would be quite the fireworks. To be really evil, I'd verify this with a lawyer, and have said lawyer present. Anyone know any bored lawyers that feel like doing some pro- bono work? -john -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-steer
