[DeltaAgileAustin] Important - Proposed Membership Change Update (Quick Edit)
Matt Roberts
All:
The statement below is incorrect:
“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. “
It should read:
“Given that we as a board made a policy change last year to do away with any fees involved with attending Agile Austin events excepting a majority vote by the board, this seems to be the last remaining benefit outside of those stylish coffee mugs. “
Also, it looks like I scheduled the Beta meeting to conflict with the conference planning meeting.
Thanks Walter and Jared for bringing up these omissions. My apologies for generating any confusion here.
From: Roberts, Matt
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 1:18 PM
To: agileaust...@googlegroups.com; Agile...@yahoogroups.com; agile-aust...@googlegroups.com
Subject: [DeltaAgileAustin] Important - Proposed Membership Change Update
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 22nd 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
*Big thanks once again to Andrews Kurth LLP!
Yasser Farra
The change of the definition of membership has to be approved by the current membership, there is no doubt about it.
Yasser