Re: Release Candidate of the PostgreSQL Europe association statutes

From: Koen Martens <gmc(at)sonologic(dot)nl>
To: Gabriele Bartolini <gabriele(dot)bartolini(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, damien(at)dalibo(dot)info, pgeu-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Release Candidate of the PostgreSQL Europe association statutes
Date: 2008-01-14 10:38:55
Message-ID: 20080114103854.GC7830@latitude.vpro.nl
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On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 11:14:30PM +0100, Gabriele Bartolini wrote:
> Dave Page ha scritto:
>> Yes!! That's almost exactly what I just wrote to Andreas :-)
>>
> ;)
>> If others are in agreement, can the rules be reworked to allow for this?
>>
> I don't know if it is worth writing it in the statute. I am asking the
> French guys to confirm this. In Italy, you try and define the main goals
> and the management issues in the statute. The more practical and operative
> issues are left in an external document, which can be flexibly (but
> democratically) changed.
>
> This is because a change in the statute comes at a price: you need to
> deposit again to the official authorities and pay taxes. Maybe if France
> this is not the case, but I guess it is worth asking.

Well, the definition of what is a 'member' is one of the most important things to put in the statutes, if you intend to have members vote on issues. Without a clear definition of what is a member, your elections are a scam.

Also, i've seen a couple of constructs whereby members of a regional group each have a vote in the EU group. This could entail that the EU will need the member database of the local group, but in this case privacy law and/or the local groups statutes may conflict.

Gr,

Koen

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