[governance] Notice to the IGC on Proposed Charter Amendments

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 14/01/13 06:47, Deirdre Williams wrote:
> My comment refers to point 5 below:
> "Before the initiation of the Voting eBallot, all voting members are
> requested to inform the IGC if they feel that there are other
> necessary amendments to be made to the  Charter and a period of 48
> hours is given to allow members to respond."
> Is there any reason that we cannot deal with these amendments piecemeal?
> Avri has made a powerful and convincing proposal that has received a
> good deal of support.
> I propose therefore that we should vote on this amendment to this
> section of the Charter now.
> As other amendments are proposed we can deal with them.
> Attempts to review the whole Charter together have been unsuccessful.
> Perhaps making a review section by section will work better.
> What do others think?

I think that other amendments should be considered at the same time. 
Here are the other amendments that I would like to propose be added to
the ballot:

  * Under "Selection of Coordinators", regarding when elections are
    held, change "by midsummer (the summer solstice) to "within 15
    months of the previous election".  Also in "If events prevent an
    election by midsummer, it will be held as soon after midsummer as
    possible," change the word "midsummer" to "then" in both places.
  * Under "Working methods", update the address of the mailing list from
    governance at lists.cpsr.org to governance at lists.igcaucus.org.

The last of these, in particular, should be a no-brainer.

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