Re: [Madwifi-devel] [VOTE] Results
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From: Michael R. <mre...@ma...> - 2007-12-07 17:28:19
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BCC: all team members Hi all. > replies I thought it would be a good idea to get a confirmation that > we, once we are SPI member, are allowed to donate a share of our > donations to the SFLC. Meanwhile that question got a positive reply. Means: we would be allowed to donate to the SFLC. From my point of view this was the last obstacle that could have prevented us from joining the SPI. > In the meantime I'll work on a rough draft of stuff that should show > up in the final "madwifi.org charter". I got side-tracked by several other project-related issues during the past days, so the draft will take some more time. It's still work in progress. In order to speed things up a little I'd like to suggest the following: We start with a minimalistic interim charter to be able to start the process of joining the SPI as a member. The application process itself takes some time, so while waiting to be accepted as member we can work on the "real" charter. We need to name a so called liason. Citing [1]: "The Liason is the person from your project to whom the Board listens for all authoritative decisions regarding your project assets, fundraising, expenses and disposition. While the Board is happy to talk to other members of your project, only the Liason will be able to send any instructions regarding your funds or assets, unless they delegate someone else." I'd volunteer to act as liason for a limited time of, say, 3 months. I'd appreciate if we find a second member who would be willing to act as "backup liason" in case I'm not available for whatever reason, so we don't get stuck at some point. Once we have agreed on a final charter the final SPI Liason/s is/are elected following the terms that have been laid out in the final charter. As announced before I won't be available in this election, as I want to concentrate on more technical tasks in the project instead. My suggestion for the interim charter is: === cut === The MadWifi project intends to join the SPI as member, basically to get the backing of a non-profit organisation and for being able to handle monetary donations properly. The project is working on a full-fledged charter but will need more time to finish it. Until then the following minimalistic interim charter shall be in effect: 1. Michael Renzmann acts as interim liason for the SPI, <yet to be named> acts as backup. They both are authorised by the team to fulfil the tasks outlined by the SPI in http://www.spi-inc.org/treasurer/associated-project-howto.html section "Your Project Liason". 2. The authorative list of team members is available on http://madwifi.org/wiki/TeamMembers and the liasons are responsible to keep the list up-to-date. 3. While this interim charter is in effect, all decisions regarding the use of assets managed by the SPI on behalf of the project (such as donated funds) need to be authorised by an affirmative vote of 75% of all team members. Such votes must be held on the publicly accessible mailing list mad...@li.... 4. The team should decide on a final charter until May 31, 2008. Once that has happened the interim liason(s) inform the SPI board about the result of the decision. At that point this interim charter will be replaced by the regular charter the team has agreed on, and a regular SPI liason will be elected. === cut === Yes, I know that the referenced list of team members needs an update, I'll take care ASAP (but most probably not before next monday). Regarding 3: Actually I think it should neither be required nor desired to use funds unless the regular charter is in effect. So I deliberately set the required amount of affirmative votes to a high number. The last vote turned out that 4 of the officially listed 23 members seem to have silently retired from the project. If the remaining 19 active members vote affirmatively that's still just 82%. As soon as 2 of the active members say "no" the 75% barrier is missed... in other words: with this rule in effect we can only spend funds if almost all members agree, and that's exactly the intention. Any general objections to this approach? Or any additions you would like to see in the interim charter? If so, please speak up during the next few days, so that we can soon make another important step forward to finally get the awaited non-profit backing. Bye, Mike [1] http://www.spi-inc.org/treasurer/associated-project-howto.html |