28 Aug
2025
28 Aug
'25
2:22 p.m.
On 28/08/2025 14.21, Goffi wrote:
Hello,
Le jeudi 28 août 2025, 10:21:38 heure d’été d’Europe centrale Guus der
Kinderen a écrit :
This might be good moment to point out that unlike in Council (Bylaws
section 8.1), a negative vote in Board does not constitute a veto
(section 5.7):
[SNIP] One should not need to block the other.
Rest of the discussion put aside, I very much disagree with this. Board and
Council members have been elected for a limited period, and the very basis of
a consensus is that one can veto a decision.
This is not solved by pressuring the person who disagree, saying "you should
not block the others", but by discussion and evolution of the proposition, or
the idea people have of it, or both until a consensus is found.
[..] At any meeting of the Board of Directors, each
Director present
at the meeting shall be entitled to cast one (1) vote on any
question
coming before the meeting. Except as otherwise provided in these Bylaws,
a vote of the majority of the Directors present at a meeting in which a
quorum is present shall be the act of the Board of Directors. If the
Board consists of an even number of Directors, the Executive Director of
the Corporation shall be empowered to cast a tie-breaking vote in any
matter except selection of the Executive Director.
The XSF operates on rough consensus, not unanimous agreement. This does
not mean that a decision made with negative votes cannot be discussed
again, of course. Objections matter, and that's why are having this
discussion.
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ralphm