From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JIQsL-0007PO-Nd for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:53:53 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E9FC0E0253; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:53:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from HOUMAIL002.halliburton.com (houmail002.halliburton.com [34.254.16.14]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B376E0253 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:53:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from HOUEXGR001.corp.halliburton.com (houexgr001.corp.halliburton.com [34.224.35.122]) by HOUMAIL002.halliburton.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m0PFlrUE016613 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:52:25 -0600 Received: from HOUEXCH079.corp.halliburton.com ([34.224.34.119]) by HOUEXGR001.corp.halliburton.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6747); Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:52:00 -0600 Received: from localhost ([34.52.12.94]) by HOUEXCH079.corp.halliburton.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:52:00 -0600 Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:52:00 -0600 From: Grant Goodyear To: gentoo-nfp@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-nfp] Re: Trustee nominations Message-ID: <20080125155200.GJ10639@feynman.corp.halliburton.com> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-nfp@lists.gentoo.org References: <200801241906.50033.slong@rathaus.eclipse.co.uk> <20080125150057.GG10639@feynman.corp.halliburton.com> <479A0000.4000002@blhlaw.com> <479A0225.5010309@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-nfp@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="17/8oYur5Y32USnW" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <479A0225.5010309@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 Jan 2008 15:52:00.0880 (UTC) FILETIME=[39135700:01C85F6A] X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=4.65.5502:2.3.11,1.2.37,4.0.164 definitions=2008-01-25_04:2008-01-24,2008-01-25,2008-01-25 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0708230000 definitions=main-0801250041 X-Archives-Salt: 092ac6b4-a452-4e19-b803-5ccee0ecfdcc X-Archives-Hash: 848aa837db1705115ce012b358a8b6cf --17/8oYur5Y32USnW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Richard Freeman wrote: [Fri Jan 25 2008, 09:37:09AM CST] > I agree. Actually - to do otherwise may very well be illegal. I'm not= =20 > sure what the penalties are if any. If the bylaws are onerous they can b= e=20 > changed, again following whatever process is stated in the bylaws, or=20 > otherwise as proscribed by law. > > Is there any reason not to do things by the book? What's the point of=20 > having a legal entity if we're not going to follow the law? Unless of=20 > course the law allows the foundation to just ignore its bylaws... You would be correct, of course, if the Foundation had an approved set of bylaws. It doesn't. It has proposed bylaws that I wrote several years ago, based off of the Python Software Foundation bylaws (with the permission of the PSF), which were rejected by the Trustees at the time because the membership and quorum rules conflicted with the existing precedent. Thus, there is no "book" to go by. (Non-profit corporations in NM are not required to have bylaws to incorporate.) In the absence of that book, precedence becomes the guide. For practical purposes, we follow the proposed bylaws anyway, except where there is clear precedence contradicting them. -g2boojum- --=20 Grant Goodyear=09 Gentoo Developer g2boojum@gentoo.org http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 --17/8oYur5Y32USnW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHmgWgptxxUuD2W3YRArAkAJ9+hLJHsmOnJiIjB55iDe1UPIY4bQCfW859 wpTlhiCeWrDf9znqZl3YpW8= =ft4G -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --17/8oYur5Y32USnW-- -- gentoo-nfp@lists.gentoo.org mailing list