I am expecting people to respond here - specially those who were once active. :)
On Oct 29, 2007, at 3:53 PM, Marvin Pascual wrote: > 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 _________________________________________________ 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
