Dear concerned PLUGgers, As many of you have noticed, PLUG wasn't able to conduct any organizational event, nor sponsor anyone, for the past 12 months. With the officers and the Board of Directors only having one fiscal year to govern as per our constitution, the board has been effectively vacated as of the first week of December 2006.
As per Article VIII: Board of Directors of the PLUG Constitution, second paragraph states: "The board of directors shall be elected during the general assembly on the 2nd week of October and shall serve for one (1) fiscal year. The newly elected board shall effectively start their term of service on the 1st week of December after a two-month transition from the outgoing board of directors of the previous fiscal year, and shall end on the 1st week of December of the next year." And as per the 6th paragraph of the said article of the PLUG Constitution says: "In the event that the entire board of directors be vacated, the remaining members of PLUG shall reconvene via a general assembly to elect new board members to replace the vacated board in the manner prescribed for elections during general assemblies." Technically, all of the board members of last year are effectively vacated due to this provision, and as of now PLUG has no governing body that can sanction PLUG activities. However, PLUG can't go on like this as this would be a disservice to the community it has been committed to empower. I'm personally appealing to all if we can proceed with nominating and electing new board members. While a few of us can make arrangements for possible venues, we will need your cooperation in planning for a General Assembly and election of the Board of Directors and its officers. FYI, our registration to the SEC is about to cease already. If we don't act on this, what will be the future of PLUG then? Will it just remain as a mailing list only? Unless that PLUG will have a set of officers and Board of Directors and at least 30 members of good standing, the issue with SEC will not be resolve. Marvin _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
