[governance] Phase 2 of improvements to the IGC Web site

[David Goldstein]

This process is absurd Jeremy and makes a mockery any sort of a democracy.

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.

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?

David




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From: Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org>
To: Don Cameron <dg_cameron at bigpond.com>; governance at lists.cpsr.org
Sent: Sun, 9 January, 2011 10:39:56 PM
Subject: Re: [governance] Phase 2 of improvements to the IGC Web site


On 09/01/2011, at 7:09 PM, Don Cameron wrote:

The charter further defines self modification (moves to change the charter) as 
follows: “In amending the charter, everyone who voted in the previous election 
will be deemed a member for amending the charter”.
> 
>This certainly impacts on the right to vote for charter modifications, however 
>it otherwise has no impact on membership.

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.

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.

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