On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 16:16:58 +0800, Rommel Feria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As of the last set of Board members' election (which made Ian the > president), I think we already established the fact that members must > be those who register only - the mailing list is free and does not > make one automatically a member (unlike before). And oh, I think it > was considered then that the founders are made members on the advisory > level. We even had a board meeting in UP Diliman, if I remember > correctly. [shesh, my memory may fail me! heheh] Anyway, this does not > need an amendment to the Constitution but rather a resolution of the > Board declaring founders as such. The way I see it, which I hope that > I'll be proven wrong, founders are no longer given proper recognition. > :(
Not really. The board resolution passed also mentioned a provision that all members that have paid for the IDs are hereby granted membership (individual membership category). That's more or less everyone concerned as of two years past. The trouble on 'lifetime' membership is how to circumvent the provision that memberships last only one fiscal year. It is indeed an oversight on our part - I wish we could've had access to previous minutes of PLUG board meetings during the time the constitution was crafted. For now, it's either individual or juridical memberships that last for one fiscal year. If we'd go the 'board resolution way' nothing really changes - the stature of being a 'lifetime member' wouldn't really accord any privilege on those who would be bestowed as such - so much for lifetime membership then. Imho, as far as the current constitution goes, this would require an amendment stating the following: 1) What qualifies one to become lifetime members (individual? institutional? is this restricted to the founding members?) 2) What privileges are accorded to lifetime members (given the board resolutions of the previous boards, founding members are accorded advisory status. but that doesn't mean that founding members == lifetime members so the requirement must be explicit). We'd be happy to have these issues deliberated as there really are a lot of points that can improve the PLUG constitution. But instead of having a constitution that would take eternity to be approved due to the glacial pace of convening a quorum for the GA, we opted that we should start from something concrete. Could we ask for the documents coming from the past boards? I think we'd really need those documents for historical purposes, as well as guidelines for implementing new resolutions, aside from material that must be weighed for constitutional amendments. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
