[Foundation] proposed agenda item: remote communications for meetings

[Harold E. Gottschalk Jr.]

second

> -----Original Message-----
> From: members-admin at jabber.org 
> [mailto:members-admin at jabber.org] On Behalf Of Peter Saint-Andre
> Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 2:12 PM
> To: members at jabber.org
> Subject: Re: [Foundation] proposed agenda item: remote 
> communications for meetings
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> --
> 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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> > Peter Saint-Andre
> > Jabber Software Foundation http://www.jabber.org/people/stpeter.html
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