Re: [steering-discuss] Updated draft of the Community Bylaws

2010-12-07 Thread Florian Effenberger
Thanks to everyone for their work! Charles-H. Schulz wrote on 2010-12-06 17.20: Well spoken. And with that, I declare the Community Bylaws adopted (provided nobody from the SC punches me in the face right away)... -- Florian Effenberger Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document

Re: [steering-discuss] poll on next confcall

2010-12-07 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Florian Effenberger wrote on 2010-12-03 10.41: you know how it works. :-) Here's the poll for next week: http://www.doodle.com/ctpptfzggtfsht4m the call has now been scheduled for Saturday, December 11th, 1400 UTC. For your local date and time, please see http://www.doodle.com/ctpptfzgg

Re: [steering-discuss] Updated draft of the Community Bylaws

2010-12-07 Thread Italo Vignoli
Florian Effenberger 05 dicembre 2010 20.55: +1. Can you prepare some text? Yes, I will do it today or tomorrow. In any case, we must wait at least a couple of days before we can distribute another announcement. -- Italo Vignoli italo.vign...@gmail.com Mobile +39.348.5653829 VoIP: +39.02.3206

Re: [steering-discuss] Updated draft of the Community Bylaws

2010-12-07 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi David, On Sat, 2010-12-04 at 06:02 +0800, David Nelson wrote: > @mmeeks: Michael, what exactly do you mean by this phrase: > > "Members agree to work and contribute to an egalitarian community, > where roles are not titles and do not grant any special privileges." > > Does that mean that ther

Re: [steering-discuss] Updated draft of the Community Bylaws

2010-12-07 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Charles, On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 11:08 +0100, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: > Last call: are we good on this? Sigh; I only just got to reading the final draft, busy day yesterday. Overall it seems to be excellent, I have a few un-addressed concerns: Members are expected to refrain fr

Re: [steering-discuss] Updated draft of the Community Bylaws

2010-12-07 Thread Michael Meeks
On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 11:59 +, Michael Meeks wrote: > IMHO the "future commitment" is sufficiently built on an > (already over-long) three month history with the project - I would like > to see that removed. To expand on this; is it -really- our intention to deny membership to people

Re: [steering-discuss] Updated draft of the Community Bylaws

2010-12-07 Thread David Nelson
Hi Michael, :-) On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 19:40, Michael Meeks wrote: >        Well - this is my view :-) it is perhaps not a sensible view, I'm open > to persuasion, and luckily I don't make these decisions the SC / board > does / will, but here is my advice: > >        In my view, authority is con