<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">This process is absurd Jeremy and makes a mockery any sort of a democracy.<br><br>It seems like empire building for the sake of empire building. Ten year old kids couldn't make more of a mess of this in organising a school play club. Actually, they'd do a much better job.<br><br>Additionally, if "the current membership list is on the basis of those who voted in the last election," what happens to those who did not vote for whatever reason?<br><br>David<br><div style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy@ciroap.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Don
Cameron <dg_cameron@bigpond.com>; governance@lists.cpsr.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sun, 9 January, 2011 10:39:56 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [governance] Phase 2 of improvements to the IGC Web site<br></font><br><base><div><div>On 09/01/2011, at 7:09 PM, Don Cameron wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: medium;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word;" lang="EN-AU"><div class="WordSection1" style=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">The
charter further defines self modification (moves to change the charter) as follows: “</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;" lang="EN">In amending the charter, everyone who voted in the previous election will be deemed a member for amending the charter”.</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;" lang="EN"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;" lang="EN">This certainly impacts on the right to vote for charter modifications, however it otherwise has no impact on membership.</span></div></div></div></span></blockquote><br></div><div>Well, so some say, but others (including myself) interpret it otherwise. The current membership list is on the basis of those who voted in the last election.
If we want to clarify this, we need to amend the charter.</div><div><br></div><div>In other news, I have properly fixed the LDAP errors that were preventing people from editing their profiles to add extra optional profile information (such as addresses and phone numbers), after they had registered. Sorry about that.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
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