Proposed change to the bylaws.

[Allen Rout]

Bureaucratic nonsense. Feel free to ignore, but I'm the sort who
prefers more information to less.


We fairly regularly have issues with getting sufficient count of
voting members to vote in new members. I'm proposing that, if not
enough folks show up to a board meeting, we can add new members with
a majority of the board alone.

Most of you probably don't care about this. :)


This diff is from my fork of our bylaws,

https://github.com/rout39574/bylaws


diff --git a/bylaws.tex b/bylaws.tex
index e856dda..d7cec93 100644
--- a/bylaws.tex
+++ b/bylaws.tex
@@ -116,6 +116,9 @@ these bylaws is qualified to become a basic
member. Any qualified person
may be elected a basic member upon payment of appropriate dues and by a simple
majority of a quorum of voting members.

+If a quorum is not reached at a given voting meeting, a basic member
+may instead be voted in by a majority of the Board.
+

\subsection{Voting Membership Election}

[dis7ant]

Bias opinion is bias, but here's mine:

New members should be easily gained, but not "willy-nilly" considering the amount of trust that's involved.  Without being too complicated, could there be a sort of "evaluation period" membership if a quorum isn't possible that will automatically turn to "regular member" if no voting member objects within a timeframe?

/2cents

[Allen Rout]

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 10:50 PM, dis7ant <dis...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Bias opinion is bias, but here's mine:
>

Sounds like a delightful topic for the meeting..

We've gone through seasons of lots of bureaucratic discussion, and
seasons of not much. I really don't intend to start another round of
navel gazing; but I do want to make it easier for us to add members.

- Allen S. Rout

[Joseph DiPietro]

An interim membership? Interesting.
How about a vote over a period of time, say six weeks to gain enough votes?

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[matteroflight]

Temporal voting, my future time mage self approves.

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[Joseph DiPietro]

It's kinda like ratifying an amendment to the Constitution. The States get so long to vote yea or nay. So if a proposed member gets enough votes over X weeks he is ratified.

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[Daniel Crisman]

Article VII Section 1, bring paper to a meeting.

[dis7ant]

Temporal voting, my future time mage self approves.

Holy shit, I just realized that you do, in fact, remind me of The Doctor

[Brian Bartholomew]

Is one board member present a "majority"?
Maybe you could weaken the definition of quorum, but not down to one.

> Holy shit, I just realized that you do, in fact, remind me of The Doctor

He does have the Tom Baker hair, and a companion...

Brian

[Daniel Crisman]

There are 5 board members, so it would be 3.

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