[Evergreen-governance-l] Proposed New Governance Changes

[Lori Bowen Ayre]

Seems to be a conflict between these two sections:

3.6 Except as provided by Section 3.14, each board member serves a term of
two years.  Notwithstanding the above, a board member may continue to serve
past the two year period until the successor board member has been duly
elected into office.  Board members may be elected to serve an unlimited
number of terms.


3.7 (c) Officers serve a term of one (1) year but, with the exception of the
Chairperson, may be re-elected an unlimited number of times, so long as they
continue to serve on the Oversight Board.   The Vice Chairperson shall
receive first consideration for the office of the Chairperson in the
election of officers the following year.



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On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Corridan, Jim (ICPR) <jcorridan at icpr.in.gov
> wrote:

>  Governance Group:
>
> Attached is a revision of the Rules of Governance.  The revisions reflect
> comments from the two most recent meetings and an attempt to have the
> Foundation serve as the single unified organization for Evergreen.  In
> addition to some minor language clean up, the major changes to this version
> of the Rules of Governance are:
>
>
>    - Clarification that one of the Foundation’s purposes is to serve as
>    the community’s user’s group
>    - A dues structure has been added.  The dues are low enough ($10 for
>    individuals and $100 for institutions) that contributors should not balk at
>    having to pay to support the foundation, whether that contributor is a board
>    member, developer, committee member, library, etc.
>    - A Code Committing Committee has been added in recognition of the
>    comments made by the Software Conservancy (about Equinox) and various
>    governance committee members in recent meetings, so that the Foundation will
>    have some input with regard to Evergreen code
>    - Membership is open to anyone who wants to join and is willing to pay
>    the membership fee.
>    - Eligibility criteria for board membership now includes the language
>    that was originally required for Evergreen Foundation Membership.
>
>
> Probably by December we need to come to some sort of agreement so that we
> have an authoritative board with an established Chairperson who will have
> the authority to sign the agreement with SFC on behalf of the Foundation,
> and also so there is time to get the committees up and running in
> preparation for the elections at the annual meeting, among other things.
> Let’s keep in mind that the board (both the Initial Board and regular
> Oversight Board) does have the power to modify the Rules of Governance in
> the immediate and long term future if something isn’t working.
>
> Jim
>
>
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