[bestbits] [governance] IMPORTANT : Merging IGC with Best Bits

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On 10 Jan 2019, at 13:30, Imran Ahmed Shah <bestbits at lists.bestbits.net<mailto:bestbits at lists.bestbits.net>> wrote:

Dear Sheetal and All Friends at IGC & BestBits,

Please find herewith Charter of IG Caucus.

We can discuss it further to provide support for the re-establishment of Website of IGC CS, if really required.

Best Regards

Imran Ahmed Shah
[on behalf of IGF Pakistan]

On Thursday, 10 January 2019, 15:46:10 GMT+5, Michael J. Oghia <mike.oghia at gmail.com<mailto:mike.oghia at gmail.com>> wrote:


Hi everyone,

Sheetal makes a great point. I also just searched for the charter, hoping to find a full-length version of it on a blog somewhere. No luck. Does anyone have a PDF or. .doc version somewhere?

Best,
-Michael


On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 11:01 AM Sheetal Kumar <sheetal at gp-digital.org<mailto:sheetal at gp-digital.org>> wrote:
Dear all,

I would agree with those further who have noted that we should have a discussion informed by certain information about the history of both groups: why were they constituted, what are their respective mandates/constitutions/charters etc? As a very first step, this information should be clear and accessible. We should be able to compare the mandates/guiding principles/charters. I can't access the IGC Charter via the link I'm afraid, or at least I can't find it when I visit archive.org<http://archive.org/>. Would there be another way to share it? @Ian Peter - you also mentioned an IGC constitution, was this different from the charter? There is a lot more publicly available information about Bestbits available (see https://bestbits.net/wiki/main/procedures/) than there is about IGC (indeed almost none, unless it is in the archive where I unfortunately haven't been able to find the information myself).

For those who were part of the first Steering Committee of Bestbits - could you share more information about how it was constituted and why?

Best
Sheetal.

On Wed, 9 Jan 2019 at 16:36, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at malcolm.id.au<mailto:jeremy at malcolm.id.au>> wrote:

On 1/8/19 10:16 PM, ian.peter at ianpeter.com<mailto:ian.peter at ianpeter.com> wrote:

Actually while this seemed to me the obvious way forward at first - BB emerged out of IGC, so why not get back together again - on reflection there are a few issues.

Firstly I note that the IGC website is down so I cant check things - but from memory IGC had a constitution which we adopted early on which proved very difficult to change, and which may not be altogether suitable for what is needed now. I think this should be looked at before everyone is locked into something that is unsuitable. Can someone get the website up and running?


I can't volunteer for that because whenever I volunteer to run a website for a limited time I end up doing so in perpetuity, and I feel bad about stopping. However, I can donate a paid virtual server for SOMEONE ELSE to administer on their own. This is the one that Best Bits is using now. It's paid up for about 5 years.

Also, as one of the original co-founders of Best Bits I do support the merger, and your (Ian's) suggestion still seems to be the best one on the table. There are previous Steering Committee members of Best Bits who aren't as happy about it, but I don't think that a good alternative has been put forward yet.

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