Re: [gentoo-trustees] Bylaws

Re: [gentoo-trustees] Bylaws

[Corey Shields]

Sven Vermeulen wrote:

>I don't think I'm the suitable guy for Bylaws. Those are quite juridical and
>almost always imply a native English writer. I can always take the Bylaws of
>some other organisations and fix them so they're suitable for the Gentoo
>Foundation, but I don't think I'm allowed to do that :)
>  
>
I'm still up for the filling out the 501(c)(6) paperwork, but one of 
those things we need are the bylaws..   I think I could handle it all 
but that.  I imagine the bylaws will need input from everyone.  It 
wouldn't hurt there to look off of some other projects and similar NFP's.

-C

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Re: [gentoo-trustees] Bylaws

[John Davis]

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On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 18:52 -0500, Corey Shields wrote:
> Sven Vermeulen wrote:
> 
> >I don't think I'm the suitable guy for Bylaws. Those are quite juridical and
> >almost always imply a native English writer. I can always take the Bylaws of
> >some other organisations and fix them so they're suitable for the Gentoo
> >Foundation, but I don't think I'm allowed to do that :)
> >  
> >
> I'm still up for the filling out the 501(c)(6) paperwork, but one of 
> those things we need are the bylaws..   I think I could handle it all 
> but that.  I imagine the bylaws will need input from everyone.  It 
> wouldn't hurt there to look off of some other projects and similar NFP's.
> 
> -C
> 
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Corey - 
I have started researching other organization's by-laws and practices. I
am currently in contact with the Fedora Project, the Debian Project, and
SPI (http://www.spi-inc.org) (the Debian folks referred me to them). I
will let you know what I find.

Cheers,
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Release Engineering
Gentoo Linux Developer/ Manager/ Trustee

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[gentoo-trustees] bylaws

[Grant Goodyear]

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Dear all,
   I've put together a very preliminary set of bylaws that I stole (with
permission) from the Python software foundation.  I suspect that we'll
want to make a lot of changes, but I suspect it will serve as a decent
starting point.  We'll also need to pass whatever final version we come
up with by our consul, of course, but I suspect we've got a fair bit of
hashing-out to do before we get to that step.

http://dev.gentoo.org/~g2boojum/bylaws.html

Best,
g2boojum
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Gentoo Developer
g2boojum@gentoo.org
http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum
GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0  9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76

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Re: [gentoo-trustees] bylaws

[Paul de Vrieze]

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On Sunday 24 October 2004 19:56, Grant Goodyear wrote:
> Dear all,
>    I've put together a very preliminary set of bylaws that I stole (with
> permission) from the Python software foundation.  I suspect that we'll
> want to make a lot of changes, but I suspect it will serve as a decent
> starting point.  We'll also need to pass whatever final version we come
> up with by our consul, of course, but I suspect we've got a fair bit of
> hashing-out to do before we get to that step.

About:
Section 3.1. : Why delaware? Is that missed?

Section 3.4 : The sentence "If mailed, such notice shall be deemed to be 
delivered when deposited in the United States mail addressed" seems to be 
gramatically wrong (around the deposited in the United States mail)

Section 4.4 : Maybe it might be an idea to allow the posibility that the 
members delegate the admission of members to the board.

Section 6.1 : I think it's probably better if the treasurer's position is 
similarly protected like the president and the secretary.

Paul


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Re: [gentoo-trustees] bylaws

[John Davis]

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Grant Goodyear wrote:
| Dear all,
|    I've put together a very preliminary set of bylaws that I stole (with
| permission) from the Python software foundation.  I suspect that we'll
| want to make a lot of changes, but I suspect it will serve as a decent
| starting point.  We'll also need to pass whatever final version we come
| up with by our consul, of course, but I suspect we've got a fair bit of
| hashing-out to do before we get to that step.
|
| http://dev.gentoo.org/~g2boojum/bylaws.html
|
| Best,
| g2boojum

Good work Grant!

The only part that I am concerned about is the clause about "Sponsor
Members". I am not sure if I like the idea of a sponsor being able to
buy themselves onto the board. Perhaps I am interpreting it wrong, but I
can see this as something which could harm us down the line (conflicts
of interest, etc). Would it be possible to remove this section and just
leave membership at two classes?

Regards,
//John
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Gentoo Linux Developer/ Manger/ Trustee
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Re: [gentoo-trustees] bylaws

[Deedra Waters]

This is something else I want to add to the adjenda for this conference
call in the morning. We've discussed this now and then, but we've never
decided on theese, and I think this should be done soon

By the way, this is the last call for items to be added to the adjenda
for tomorrow's meeting, please let me know soon if there's anything else
you'd like discussed..

On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Grant Goodyear wrote:

> Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 12:56:52 -0500
> From: Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@gentoo.org>
> Reply-To: gentoo-trustees@lists.gentoo.org
> To: gentoo-trustees@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: [gentoo-trustees] bylaws
>
> Dear all,
>    I've put together a very preliminary set of bylaws that I stole (with
> permission) from the Python software foundation.  I suspect that we'll
> want to make a lot of changes, but I suspect it will serve as a decent
> starting point.  We'll also need to pass whatever final version we come
> up with by our consul, of course, but I suspect we've got a fair bit of
> hashing-out to do before we get to that step.
>
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~g2boojum/bylaws.html
>
> Best,
> g2boojum
>

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