Hi, graham wrote: > How do I find out if I'm a member in good standing? Is it possible to > check the register of members?
I recently asked bo...@osmf for a list of members and received the answer that providing such a list might clash with members' privacy; but they said they thought that creating a members-only mailing list would be a good idea (I expect this to be done any day now). So I guess that, once the list is set up, if you find you receive mails from that list then you are a member ;-) > I paid for membership - once, quite a > long time ago - and have never received any subsequent request for > "subscription and other sum (if any) which shall be due and payable to > the Association in respect of my membership" - so I guess I've probably > been dropped from the list. The proper contact at OSMF would be the membership secretary. I don't know anything about their policies regarding renewals. However, I *think* that it was planned to have some kind of grace period, i.e. if your membership has lapsed because you didn't renew, you might have the chance to just pay now and it counts as having renewed after your previous membership expired. But don't take my word for any of this, I do not have any more access to board meeting minutes than anyone else. > Is that the way it works? No reminders, and > silently dropped? Or do you stay a member as long as you haven't been > asked for another subscription, terminating at death? That would seem to > be the implication of the 'general' section in the articles of association. I thought that the membership fee was a yearly amount but maybe I was wrong. There are many things in the Articles of Association and the underlying Companies Act that on first reading seem to run contrary to how business in OSMF is conducted, and I put this down to myself not knowing which bits are important and which bits are subject to interpretation. For example I would have thought that the Companies Act says that the register of members must be available on request (even to non-members so could as well be put on the web site), but who am I to know the intricate details of the UK system - there are probably myriad "case law" issues that say otherwise and only a lawyer will know what counts. Bye Frederik _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
