[dundee] Constitution

[Andrew Clayton]

On Sun, 2003-05-04 at 18:38, Mark Harrigan wrote:
> Maybe I'm getting a little ahead of myself here but I was thinking
> that we should maybe have some sort of formal organisation to the LUG
> and I ripped off the following.
> 

This stuff seems like fairly standard procedure, so it's probably a good
idea to be thinking about it...

Grammatical note: My English is pretty poor, but I reckon a number the
"it's" should be either "its" or does this even exist? "its'"



--
Andrew Clayton
  
> TLUG Constitution:
> 
>    1.  Aims and Objectives
> 
>          1. To provide a forum to discuss and gain experience of
>             GNU/Linux and all Open Source operating systems. 
> 
>          2. To help and educate interested parties in the usage of
>             Open Source operating systems and related software.
> 
>          3. To promote the use of Open Soruce as a viable alternative
>             to proprietary techniques.
> 
> 
> 
>    2. Membership
> 
>          1. Membership shall be obtained by subscribing to the TLUG
>             mailing list.
> 
>          2. All members shall be bound by this constitution.
> 
>          3. All members may vote on any motion brought before the
>             membership by the Committee. Any such ballot shall be
>             organised and adminstered by the committee or it's
>             appointed representative.
> 
>          4. All members shall be eligible to vote on the composition
>             of the Committe.
> 
> 
> 
>    3. Committee
> 
>          1. The Committee shall run the society on behalf of the
>             members, pursuant to the objectives of this constitution.
> 		
>          2. Committee decisions shall be decided by way of a majority
>             vote.
> 
>          3. The quorum for all votes held by the Committee shall be
>             three members.
> 
>          4. The Committee shall elect a Chairman from amongst it's
>             members. The Chairman may use his casting vote when a
>             Committee Vote is otherwise tied.
> 
>          5. The Committe may appoint members of the group to named
>             postions (eg. Treasurer, Electoral Officer, etc.) for a
>             term of not longer than one year. There is no limit to the
>             number of terms that any one person may serve in such a
>             role, however.
> 
> 
> 
>    4. Election of Committee
> 
>          1. The Committee shall consist of seven full members of the
>             group.
> 
>          2. To seek election, each candidate shall either be nominated
>             by any other member, or may volunteer.
> 
>          3. Members shall be eligible to vote or be elected to the
>             committee if they have been full members of the society
>             for more than one month at the date of the election. This
>             shall be proved by checking with the mailing list
>             subscription logs.
> 
>          4. The sitting Committee will be responsible for appointing
>             an electoral officer who will oversee the administration for
>             the election. This will involve checking eligability and
>             tallying votes.
> 
>          5. The quorum for the Committee Elections shall be ten
>             members, or 15% of the group's membership, whichever is
>             the higher. If the quorum is not met, the current
>             committee shall continue in their posts for a further
>             term. If any members of the current committee have not
>             stood for re-election, they may be deemed to have
>             resigned, and the procedure outlined in paragraph 4.7
>             should be followed.
> 
> 
>          6. The Committee shall be appointed by way of a non-stochastic
>             Single Transferable Vote election. Votes shall be returned
>             to the Electoral Officer by email.
> 
>          7. If any Committee member resigns during his term of office,
>             the committee may co-opt any eligible replacement from the
>             wider group membership.
> 
> By Mark Harrigan
> 
> Based upon original by Rory Irvine (Belfast Linux User Group)
> http://www.belfastlinux.org/article/c2002
> 
> I would like to see something formal so that it forces us to keep up
> the effort and prevents any possible personal disagreements affecting
> the LUG. Feel free to disect and destroy :).
> 
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