[Foundation] proposed agenda item: remote communications for meetings

[bauer at michaelbauer.com]

Assuming Shawn is good with the correction, I third.

On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:

> Sorry, replace "voters" with "participants" in the proposal. So:
> 
> ******
> 
> RESOLVED that the following paragraph be added to Section 3.1 of the JSF
> Bylaws:
> 
> Subject to Board of Directors approval and compliance with applicable law,
> remote communication may include online text conferencing, provided that
> the conferencing system verifies the identity of participants to the
> satisfaction of the Secretary.
> 
> ******
> 
> Peter
> 
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> Peter Saint-Andre
> Jabber Software Foundation
> http://www.jabber.org/people/stpeter.html
> 
> On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> 
> > OK, I know you're all getting sick of this (I am too), but I need to
> > propose one more voting item for the annual meeting agenda. I hereby ask
> > for people to second the following proposal:
> > 
> > ******
> > 
> > RESOLVED that the following paragraph be added to Section 3.1 of the JSF
> > Bylaws:
> > 
> > Subject to Board of Directors approval and compliance with applicable law,
> > remote communication may include online text conferencing, provided that
> > the conferencing system verifies the identity of voters to the
> > satisfaction of the Secretary.
> > 
> > ******
> > 
> > EXPLANATION for those who care... :)
> > 
> > Item #4 on the agenda (http://www.jabber.org/discuss/2002-09-04.html)
> > addresses remote communication for the purpose of voting (Section 3.9 of
> > the Bylaws), not for the purpose of official meetings of the JSF. In order
> > to hold official JSF meetings via groupchat, we need to amend Section 3.1
> > of the Bylaws, and that is what the paragraph proposed above will do for
> > us. Without this proposed amendment, we could vote via memberbot but we'd
> > still have to hold the official meetings in person or via conference call.
> > Which is sub-optimal. So please help us out by seconding this proposal by
> > midnight MDT today (which is actually 06:00 UTC tomorrow). Current and
> > future JSf members will thank you.
> > 
> > Peter
> > 
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