At 23:04 +0000 29/11/08, Thomas Dalton wrote: >2008/11/29 Gordon Joly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> At 22:22 +0000 29/11/08, Thomas Dalton wrote: >>> > It is for such concerns that I have suggested a limit on guarantor >>>> members, say to 75 or 100 people, all reviewed by the board, and open >>>> membership for the "Friends of WMUK 2.0" with no review. >>> >>>Why should only the first 100 people get to have any say in the >>>running of the chapter? >> >> They will have a say, at the AGM, or an SGM, only. The Board runs >>the Company. >> >> Also, look forwards a decade? Many of the "first 100" will have left >> by then, and it will be important to maintain a stable body. > >The AGM is a meeting of members of the company, ie. guarantor members. >"Friends" don't get a vote at the AGM.
Yes, nice to agree. The Governance of WMUK is far from settled AFAIK. A very large group (hundreds or thousands) cannot have a single voice with some hierarchical or other structures. Here is the original posting, for some context. Not everbody uses Gmail to read posts... :-) ***** --------- To: [email protected] From: Gordon Joly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Process for admitting members At 00:06 +0000 29/11/08, Andrew Turvey wrote: >[...] >When we were drafting the constitution, we adopted the standard >Articles for charities, which give the Board fairly broad powers to >refuse (or remove) membership if they consider this in the best >interests of the charity. This is subject to a due process that the >Board must follow and a right of appeal to the AGM, which the Board >decided to beef up from the standard rules.[...] It is for such concerns that I have suggested a limit on guarantor members, say to 75 or 100 people, all reviewed by the board, and open membership for the "Friends of WMUK 2.0" with no review. Gordon --------- ***** Gordo -- "Think Feynman"///////// http://pobox.com/~gordo/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]/// _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l
