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2014-12-20
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okay... since Council elections are close and the referendum is one of the tasks for next Council period, let me revive this thread.
Most comments here indicate people are in favor of Council being disbanded. This would mean shifting their tasks and responsibilities to another group within MC eV. Naturally, this would fall into the hands of the General Meeting respectively active members. Alternatively, a working group could be established, by election or simply by volunteering. Board doesn't really come into consideration here, does it?
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I'm not very nostalgic, but I like good tradition.
My advise would be to keep Council, make good use of it and to not strain board resilience.
I'm staying out of either body in order to convey and to make sure we will have the broadest consensus possible.
Unfortunately, we can't please everybody, but if concerns arise, they should of course be considered.
MC eV regulations unlikely are perfect and this is our opportunity to improve them. Critics are welcome.
Please also note my and Woodys' posts above.
Let's make this referendum a strong plebiscite.
Peace
The most prevalent things that I see in Council meeting logs, is fixing problems that some parts of Council (or Council as a whole) created. Kinda reminds me of body bravely fighting problems, that doesn't exist in other bodies.
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2014-12-20
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2014-12-22
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Whether the Council is part of the e.V. or external to it is, IMHO, irrelevant.
Also I still don't quite see the role of the General Assembly (active members of Maemo e.V.), which are a necessary legal aspect but have no clear role in how things are done here.
The Board of directors execute both GA's [active members] and Council's [passive members] rulings, which may result in messy situations.
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2014-12-22
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2014-12-22
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I'm all for disbanding Council and establishing a volunteer's working group that get it's task (the ones that aren't obsolete, that is). The major problem with elected Council is that being elected given too strong (perceived, especially by Council members) mandate for "mundane" tasks that Council does.
Also, the Council name have accumulated (not for everyone, but I think that for many people) so much negativity, that even the name itself is a joke by now. We should erase it from future of Maemo, and replace it with respect work group(s), IMO.
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2014-12-23
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Well, how would you select the people who are to do the general housekeeping tasks, then? I see elections being a good thing since that should help that people who get elected will have support, and hopefully be responsible about the tasks taken.
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2014-12-23
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Legally, it's not. If council wants to be external, there's no way it could overrule General Assemblys' decisions.
It also affects libility issues.
Board recruits and gets elected by active members.
As stated repeatedly, this is a legal reuirement.
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2014-12-23
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Not everyone here will want to (or be allowed to) become a member of the e.V.
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2014-12-23
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I grant the "not all will want to" part but AFAIK "everyone is allowed to"
Can you prove me wrong?
(2) Mitglied des Vereins kann jede natürliche oder juristische Person werden, die seine Ziele unterstützt, natürliche Personen müssen das 14. Lebensjahr vollendet haben.
Wenn ein Mitglied gegen die Ziele und Interessen des Vereins schwer verstossen hat oder trotz schriftlicher bzw. elektronischer Mahnung wiederholt Verstösse begangen hat, kann es durch den Vorstand mit sofortiger Wirkung ausgeschlossen werden. Der Ausschließungsbeschluss ist dem Auszuschließenden schriftlich, elektronisch oder per email mit Begründung bekannt zu geben.
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Most comments here indicate people are in favor of Council being disbanded. This would mean shifting their tasks and responsibilities to another group within MC eV. Naturally, this would fall into the hands of the General Meeting respectively active members. Alternatively, a working group could be established, by election or simply by volunteering. Board doesn't really come into consideration here, does it?
OTOH, the issue could as well be resolved by clearly defining/limiting Councils' responsibilities in a way that it cannot force board into anything they don't support, at least not anything that could affect their legal liability. Otherwise I don't see how we'll ever get any volunteers for board again. Just ask yourself: Would you run as candidate for board, given the above was not respected?
With my experience as HiFo director and having planned MC eV, I believe this is the way to go. It's a compromise that shouldn't hurt either side and harmonises the relation between Board and Council, which could then continue within MC eV. That's the way MC eV is designed and retaining this would minimize efforts to adjust bylaws or general regulations (of course, that'd just be a benefit but for itself should not be the reason to go this way).
I'm not very nostalgic, but I like good tradition.
My advise would be to keep Council, make good use of it and to not strain board resilience.
I'm staying out of either body in order to convey and to make sure we will have the broadest consensus possible.
Unfortunately, we can't please everybody, but if concerns arise, they should of course be considered.
MC eV regulations unlikely are perfect and this is our opportunity to improve them. Critics are welcome.
Please also note my and Woodys' posts above.
Let's make this referendum a strong plebiscite.
Peace
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