[ZF] [zf-announce] [bylaws] Clearing up majority wording and emeritus conversion majority

[Lennart Regebro]

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On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 13:01, Jens Vagelpohl <jens at dataflake.org> wrote:
> The board is announcing a change to the Zope Foundation bylaws.
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> Current situation
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> The wording describing majorities is not precise in some
> places. The majority needed to convert an inactive member
> to Emeritus status is set at 2/3rds of all members of the
> corporation.
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> Problem
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> Readers may confuse majorities of members present at a meeting
> with majorities referring to majorities of all members of the
> corporation. Furthermore, converting inactive members to emeritus
> status is too hard under the 2/3rds majority rule.
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> Solution
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> Change the wording in Paragraphs 4.4, 4.7, 4.8 and 4.10 to
> clarify that majorities refer to majorities of all members of
> the corporation.  Change paragraph 4.7 to specify a simple
> majority of all members of the corporation for emeritus
> conversion.
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> This announcement acts as a notice to all foundation members in
> accordance with bylaws paragraph 10. The redlined changes in the
> attached PDF document will be incorporated into the official
> Zope Foundation bylaws 15 days after this notification has been
> received on this mailing list.
>
> Jens Vagelpohl
> Secretary, Zope Foundation Board of Directors
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