Re: Release Candidate of the PostgreSQL Europe association statutes

Hello,

On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 01:04:15PM +0100, Koen Martens wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 09:24:11PM +0100, damien clochard wrote:
>
> > Check it out :
> > http://wiki.postgresqlfr.org/doku.php/pgeu:statutes
>
> Just a few thoughts after reading these statutes (i've been involved
> with non-profits and statutes mostly in Holland, plus i am not a
> lawyer).
>
> It is mentioned "For the General Assembly to be validly constituted a
> quorum of 30% of the total number of members must be present or
> represented.". Is there no danger of the association ending up in dead
> water if you require such a big amount of members to be present? In my
> experience, only the 'die hards' ever come to these GA's anyway. I
> think most GA's (from political organisations and non-profits such as
> FFII) i've been to attract maybe one percent of the members, if not
> less (counting represented members also).

Have you read the following sentence which takes care for exactly this
problem?

Kind regards

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Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
German PostgreSQL User Group