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Accepting the Article on Goals and the Resolution for 2005:
Poll ended at Wed 08 Jun , 2005 4:54 pm
I accept both the Article and the Resolution for 2005
  
100% [ 11 ]
I accept the Article but not the Resolution for 2005
  
0% [ 0 ]
I reject both the Article and the Resolution for 2005
  
0% [ 0 ]
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Jnyusa
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BALLOT #33

Point 1: The article on Goals will simply provide that goals be developed once a year. It will appear in the by-laws section and be given an appropriate place and number when the rest of the by-laws are drafted.

Article (.): Goals
The Board will develop goals once a year and post them where all members can read them.

Point 2: The actual goals then are not part of the Charter per se but are recorded as “Resolutions of the Membership.” As a matter of record-keeping, Resolutions are usually kept in the same place as the Charter, for us that means they are typed in at the end of the Charter, and we add to them as new ones appear.

It is resolved that our Goals for 2005 are:
1. To open the board to the public
2. To decide whether to move to our own site
3. If we move, to resolve the related ownership issues by the end of the calendar year.
[ratification date goes here]

We will vote until Monday, June 5, 11:59 pm GMT so that ratification discussion can begin on Tuesday

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Friends, we are pulling out all the stops to get the final points covered. In the vote on 'when to open,' Voronwe included Goals in conjunction with the Mission Statement and Key Principles, and he feels bound by that. Brief discussion here has indicated that members consider this the least of our problems, and also that goals serious enough to be part of the Charter should be long term and receive a lot of discussion which we are not prepared to give to them right now.

So ... I have a proposal for a short term solution to this problem.

That we create an un-numbered Article (like the Article which contains the rules for ratification) -- this article will appear somewhere near the end of the by-laws and will be numbered when we are able to do so, and it will state that the Board will develop goals once a year and post them where all members can read them.

Article (.): Goals
The Board will develop goals once a year and post them where all members can read them.

That is all that would actually be in the Charter and all that the members would have to ratify.

If you are concerned about raw new members engaging in the actual goal-setting process after we open, we can offer the following simple 2005 goals to the members for ratification as well:

1. To Open the board to the public
2. To decide whether to move to our own site
3. If we move, to resolve the related ownership issues by the end of the calendar year.

Then we have a whole year to figure out how the goal setting will get done in the future.

Jn

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Looks good to me, Jn. Let's vote. :P


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First let me see if people want to vote only on the Charter article or whether they want to provide initial goals.

We can start the vote tomorrow, run it for 24 hours, and still be in enough time for the ratification discussion to begin.

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I was joking. :)


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Excellent suggestion :)
I would however go for stating those simple (not so simple ;) ) 2005 goals

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I would, too. But this is a good solution, I think—it covers the point, but allows it to be revisited properly later.

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I agree. Open the voting.

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What Prim said! :)

(LOL, I hadn't been aware there was a discussion on Goals going on somewhere? :scratch )

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I prefer the option of adding the three simple goals.


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TH hadn't been aware there was a discussion on Goals going on somewhere?

LOL - that's because I just put it up zoom zoom!

OK, I think we can do this as a poll, but let me think for a minute about how to set it up so that people who have not spoken up can either vote against the article or itself or against the inclusion of those goals.

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OK - I've added a poll.

VOTING IS NOW OPEN

We will vote for approximately 33 hours ... we want to get the member discussion thread started no later than Tuesday, June 6, 11:59 pm GMT so that the vote does not carry over into the month of July.

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Did I mention that I voted? ;)


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Voted also.

(Would have voted earlier but I was sleeping)

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