On Feb 20, 2008 12:07 PM, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at sun.com> wrote: > Simon Phipps wrote: > > It is possible to interpret section 7.3 to mean that OGB Members are > > automatically admitted to the At Large Community as Core Contributors. > > That's exactly how I read it, and didn't realize until this thread that > anyone interpreted it differently - everywhere else I see "current" used > in the Constitution it refers to the time of the action, not the time of > the adoption of the constitution. Certainly no one would argue that > Section 6.6 limits Quorum to the original OGB, or that 6.11 limits the > holding of Chair or Vice Chair positions to the original OGB members. > > I also read 7.3 as making the At Large community special in that only the > OGB, not the Core Contributors, can grant membership in the community group.
Which puts it at odds with the rest of the constitution's definition of voting procedures for approving members. Joy! -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben
