yuri wrote:
WTF? I thought Nick was the resident lawyer. Please rephrase in laymans' terms.
Gladly, Yuri. Please bear in mind that I am a relative newbie here, and there may be mistakes in what I write. Where so, I stand to be corrected, with thanks.
There is an Annual General Meeting (CLUG's formal first), at the old St Albans library on Colombo Street north near Edgeware, on Wednesday 27 October 2004. It will take place around the CLUG PC-fixit/clinic being organised by Douglas Royds from 7.30pm, where there's time & space. We should get all the repair boxes set up first & connect advisors to the problems the owners identify, and will sort them out quickly enough, imho. Hopefully there will be sufficient time, attendance and interest for a worthwhile group discussion as well.
This unique combination of events has come about as a viable way to quickly resolve some issues. The central one is the initiative to move CLUG meetings from Sydenham to St Albans, which had bogged our committee down for the first half of 2004. At our Sydenham meeting of 23 September the shift was formulated as a trial exercise, focussed on a clinic, but needing some authoritative status to decide from the evaluation. Not having had a General Meeting since 29 January 2003, it was agreed that one was timely. Calling the General Meeting Annual is from routine teminological use and organisational practise, rather than from any formality that has been - or is yet to be - established for us. But announcing call for a General Meeting has allowed us an opportunity to decide some key things, including whether any General Meetings are required in future. The AGM has been called and assented, as witnessed by a monthly turnout of *.
The agenda for this General Meeting is open for any formal proposals or motions to be put forward, as this thread bears out and is its purpose. We need a volunteer to receive, collate and bring any proposals to the AGM, or the list archive must suffice. If it eventuates that the latter method obtains, it might be wise to bring your proposal responses to the AGM and not take us Off Topic onlist. There are few proposals before us as yet, and few are expected. But this is a rare opportunity for new users to help directly guide the education programme of *.
As the current, voluntary convener of meetings for *, my role is not to make proposals or motions, but to facilitate their speedy resolution. The ethic I have learned in my time here is that people are busy, and meetings are not called without good reason. Should meetings be called, they must be merit-worthy and successful. This is my primary responsibility in having written here, and I ask your forbearance please, in fulfilling that duty.
* That by which the CLUG list is known when participants meet in person, particularly for *nix education.
With respect,
Rik Tindall
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 17:16:30 +1300, Rik Tindall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As the caller, on 23 September 2004 before the Sydenham public meeting of CLUG, of our first Annual General Meeting, to be organised through the supervision of Christopher Sawtell at CLUG's prospective new venue in St Albans, I hereby discharge my responsibility to call for notices of motion to the aforesaid AGM, to be held from 7.30pm on Wednesday 27 October 2004.
Cordially yours,
Rik Tindall
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