[DeltaAgileAustin] Important - Proposed Membership Change Update

[Matt Roberts]

All:

 

As I announced in last month’s meeting, I am pleased to announce that after reviewing with our legal counsel* there are no impediments to changing the qualification of an Agile Austin member from paying money to meaningful participation.  This type of change is something that a number of Agile Austin members and community members have advocated since early this year.  I am also in favor of this as I believe that the people who participate should be the ones who may vote in the annual board elections.  Given that we as a board made a policy change last year to do away with any fees involved with Agile Austin membership, this seems to be the last remaining benefit outside of those stylish coffee mugs. 

 

The Delta Agile Austin group that met earlier this year came up with a proposal for the meaningful participation to be defined as attending a certain number of Agile Austin meetings in a given time frame.  There were a number of proposals on the table, and we will discuss these proposals at the next Open Board Meeting on Tuesday, May 22^nd at 6:30 PM.  Please feel free to sign up if you would like to join the discussion.

 

http://agileaustinmay2012boardmtg.eventbrite.com/

 

I will also host two information sessions for the membership during the month of June to present our proposal to the membership and community.  We will finalize this decision during the June Open Board meeting.  

 

Information Session Alpha – Tuesday, June 12, 2012 from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM @CA Technologies on 360

http://agileaustinmembershipalpha.eventbrite.com

 

Information Session Beta – Tuesday, June 19, 2012 from 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM @CA Technologies on 360

http://agileaustinmembershipbeta.eventbrite.com/

 

Note:  If someone would like to host the Beta session up North or Central, please let me know ASAP so I can change the invite.  My goal is to make these meetings as accessible as possible to everyone, which is why I’m trying different times and would like different locations.

 

We believe that this change will need to be passed by the current membership as it affects our charter, so stay tuned for that as well.

 

Of course, please feel free to contact me with any questions or comments.

 

All the best,

 

Matt

pres...@agileaustin.org

 

*Big thanks once again to Andrews Kurth LLP!