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From: Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-nfp <gentoo-nfp@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-nfp] Re: [RFC] Bylaws change: Lower the member quorum to 1/10
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2018 08:59:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGfcS_kjr3n5BTrO46EQ1vj9jKzPtyz_1rAxuhhPNOrMVs8vRQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <23317.13669.356883.442520@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de>

On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 8:49 AM Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> >>>>> On Sun, 03 Jun 2018, Roy Bamford wrote:
>
> > Not having a quorum prevents a vote of members taking place.
> > However, there has never been a need for a vote of members at any
> > meeting of members.
>
> Why do we have meetings of members then?
>

They're generally required by law, because laws typically recognize
that the directors of an organization serve the shareholders, and not
the other way around...

-- 
Rich


  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-04 12:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-02 10:32 [gentoo-nfp] [RFC] Bylaws change: Lower the member quorum to 1/10 Ulrich Mueller
2018-06-02 11:13 ` [gentoo-nfp] " Ulrich Mueller
2018-06-02 12:12   ` Roy Bamford
2018-06-02 14:40     ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-06-02 14:48       ` M. J. Everitt
2018-06-02 14:53         ` M. J. Everitt
2018-06-02 15:39       ` Roy Bamford
2018-06-02 17:11         ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-06-03 22:56           ` Roy Bamford
2018-06-04  5:32             ` Michał Górny
2018-06-04 12:49             ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-06-04 12:59               ` Rich Freeman [this message]
2018-06-02 17:17 ` [gentoo-nfp] " Andreas K. Huettel
2018-06-03 14:07 ` Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
2018-06-03 18:35   ` Matthew Thode

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