Difference between revisions of "Vote on 3 Policy Labels"

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While the validity of the above pseudo policies may be debated forever, this vote is to settle the fact.
 
  
The purpose of this vote is to reiterate that policy changes in the space must go through a vote of the membership, and policies outside of legal compliance must go through a vote of the membership.
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Quite a few people have said that they want both the membership to run the space, and also want the BoD to have the ability to protect it quickly.  If the BoD can create temporary policies than need to be validated by a membership vote later, that seems to satisfy both of these interests.
  
 
== Language ==
 
== Language ==

Revision as of 13:59, 23 April 2015

Sponsors

  • hef

History

  • 2015-04-22 - Inception
  • 2015-04-29 - Discussion (planned)
  • 2015-05-06 - Language Lockdown (planned)
  • 2015-05-13 - Vote (planned)

Background

It's my opinion that the following three pseudo policies are invalid because they were not voted on by the general membership:


Quite a few people have said that they want both the membership to run the space, and also want the BoD to have the ability to protect it quickly. If the BoD can create temporary policies than need to be validated by a membership vote later, that seems to satisfy both of these interests.

Language

Policy changes in the space are not suitable as a vote of the directors, and must be voted on by the general membership.