[dundee] Constitution
Wm. G. Urquhart
dundee at lists.lug.org.uk
Sun May 4 20:38:01 2003
On Sun, 4 May 2003, Mark Harrigan wrote:
Made a few corrections to the spelling, apart from that looks good to me.
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
1.3 Typo on Source
>
> 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.
2.4 This should be its not it's
> 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.
3.4 should be its not it's
> 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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