Re: SPI

Hello,

So, uh, what's going on?

Apparently there was a resolution accepted in May to have monthly meetings
at 19:00 UTC on the first Tuesday of every month; but since then we've
only seen minutes for the meeting in July (which presumably served as
SPI's annual general meeting), and the aborted meetings in October and
November. Were there meetings in June, August or September, and if so,
when can the membership expect to be informed as to what, if anything,
happened?

Will SPI be issuing an annual report to its membership indicating its
activities, its level of solvency, what level of funds have been received
for various member projects, and so forth? A couple of items listed
in the By Laws (member-submitted resolutions, special board meetings
requested by the membership and review of resolutions by the membership)
require knowledge of how many members there are before they can be used,
and, as far as I can tell, this information simply isn't available. How
many contributing members do we have?

What, exactly, is the level of involvement available to contributing
members who aren't on the board? Are we invited to attend board
meetings? The annual meeting? Are we expected or even able to be involved
in deciding who will serve on our board of directors? Why is the annual
meeting only announced to board members, and special meetings announced
to all members?

Will the next board meeting be held at 2002-12-03 19:00 UTC? Where
will it be held? Are all the remaining board members able to commit
to attending this meeting? Will it address Joey's resignation and the
nominations that have been received? Will it be a special meeting,
or are contributing members invited to attend?

Cheers,
aj

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On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 04:06:30PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> Apparently there was a resolution accepted in May to have monthly meetings
> at 19:00 UTC on the first Tuesday of every month;

Or, apparently, not. According to my IRC logs, the board are interpreting
"19:00 UTC" as being affected by northern hemisphere daylight savings,
and thus today's board meeting was at 20:00 UTC; although it failed to
meet quorum (Ean and Joey being the only directors present), and it's
been adjourned until 20:00 UTC on Tuesday the 10th. Meetings take place
on #spi on irc.oftc.net.

There are rumoured to be some resolutions that have been proposed over
email related to the nominations received.

Cheers,
aj, not real impressed at staying up 'til 5:30am local time, then finding
out via his IRC logs that everyone was meant to know the meetings were
an hour later in "winter"

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Anthony Towns <aj(at)humbug(dot)org(dot)au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/>
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``If you don't do it now, you'll be one year older when you do.''

On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 04:06:30PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> A couple of items listed
> in the By Laws (member-submitted resolutions, special board meetings
> requested by the membership and review of resolutions by the membership)
> require knowledge of how many members there are before they can be used,
> and, as far as I can tell, this information simply isn't available. How
> many contributing members do we have?

So we have 172 contributing members, apparently, meaning that 58 (33.3%)
are required to cause the president to call a special meeting, that 61
(35%) voters are required to form a quorum for votes, and 14 (sqrt)
seconds are required for a proposal sent to the secretary to be put to
the membership.

Cheers,
aj

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I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred.

``If you don't do it now, you'll be one year older when you do.''