On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Andrew Gray <andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk>wrote:
> 2009/3/17 Michael Bimmler <mbimm...@gmail.com>: > > > Um...how exactly would you amend the contract to anything not agreed with > > the Wikimedia Foundation? Isn't it quite obvious that any amendment of > the > > contract would need to be done in agreement with the other party of the > > agreement? > > Amendment yes, outright repudiation quite possibly not... > Sorry, but somehow I fail to understand this. We have a motion from Thomas Dalton that says, in summary, "The board may not itself amend or change the Chapters Agreement [but needs to get a Special Resolution etc.]". Tom Holden now proposes to change this to "[The board may not] terminat[e] it or [amend] it to anything not agreed with the Wikimedia Foundation." and I just fail to see how this makes sense: If the board decides that it is not happy with the contract as-is, then it needs to negotiate with the WMF to see whether they consent to amending it. That is, the only way the board can amend the contract is by agreement with the WMF. However, Tom's amendment suggests that there are two cases: - amendments which are agreed by the WMF (-> no special resolution needed) - amendments not agreed by the WMF (-> special resolution needed). and I think the latter category just cannot exist... Andrew: If you say "outright repudiation", do you mean "termination of the contract" or "violation of the contract in force"? For the former: Well, both the motion by Thomas and the amendment by Tom agree that for termination, a Special Resolution is needed. For the latter: Are we indeed saying that we want to pass a clause requiring the board not to violate the contract? Is this not a bit....paranoid? Michael -- Michael Bimmler mbimm...@gmail.com
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