Preliminary bylaws approval process
Nathan Schneider
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This is a thread for finalizing the initial bylaws for Social.coop.
Poll Created Tue 1 Aug 2017 3:16AM
Do we approve of these bylaws? Closed Fri 11 Aug 2017 3:12AM
WE HAVE BYLAWS! Congratulations, all. This is a big step forward. Now time for working groups to get going on policies.
The Governance / Legal Working Group has just approved an initial bylaws document, and we are now bringing it to the full group to approve. If we approve it (according to the standards the bylaws themselves recommend in the last section, I think we can consider it approved:
- At least 10 days allowed for members to weigh in
- Agreement by at least 75% of voting members
- No blocks, unless 95% agreement is reached
View the bylaws draft here.
Keep in mind that these are the work of considerable effort from the working group, so please respect their/our effort that went into this. Nevertheless, if you see glaring need for changes, now is a good time to say so, and we can re-propose an amended version if necessary.
We're very much looking forward to grounding this cooperative in some worthy bylaws!
Results
| Results | Option | % of points | Voters | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|
Agree | 100.0% | 6 |
|
| Abstain | 0.0% | 0 | ||
| Disagree | 0.0% | 0 | ||
| Block | 0.0% | 0 | ||
| Undecided | 0% | 15 |
|
6 of 21 people have participated (28%)
Poll Created Tue 1 Aug 2017 3:16AM
Do we approve of these bylaws? Closed Fri 11 Aug 2017 3:12AM
WE HAVE BYLAWS! Congratulations, all. This is a big step forward. Now time for working groups to get going on policies.
The Governance / Legal Working Group has just approved an initial bylaws document, and we are now bringing it to the full group to approve. If we approve it (according to the standards the bylaws themselves recommend in the last section, I think we can consider it approved:
- At least 10 days allowed for members to weigh in
- Agreement by at least 75% of voting members
- No blocks, unless 95% agreement is reached
View the bylaws draft here.
Keep in mind that these are the work of considerable effort from the working group, so please respect their/our effort that went into this. Nevertheless, if you see glaring need for changes, now is a good time to say so, and we can re-propose an amended version if necessary.
We're very much looking forward to grounding this cooperative in some worthy bylaws!
Results
| Results | Option | % of points | Voters | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|
Agree | 100.0% | 6 |
|
| Abstain | 0.0% | 0 | ||
| Disagree | 0.0% | 0 | ||
| Block | 0.0% | 0 | ||
| Undecided | 0% | 15 |
|
6 of 21 people have participated (28%)
Poll Created Tue 1 Aug 2017 3:16AM
Do we approve of these bylaws? Closed Fri 11 Aug 2017 3:12AM
WE HAVE BYLAWS! Congratulations, all. This is a big step forward. Now time for working groups to get going on policies.
The Governance / Legal Working Group has just approved an initial bylaws document, and we are now bringing it to the full group to approve. If we approve it (according to the standards the bylaws themselves recommend in the last section, I think we can consider it approved:
- At least 10 days allowed for members to weigh in
- Agreement by at least 75% of voting members
- No blocks, unless 95% agreement is reached
View the bylaws draft here.
Keep in mind that these are the work of considerable effort from the working group, so please respect their/our effort that went into this. Nevertheless, if you see glaring need for changes, now is a good time to say so, and we can re-propose an amended version if necessary.
We're very much looking forward to grounding this cooperative in some worthy bylaws!
Results
| Results | Option | % of points | Voters | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|
Agree | 100.0% | 6 |
|
| Abstain | 0.0% | 0 | ||
| Disagree | 0.0% | 0 | ||
| Block | 0.0% | 0 | ||
| Undecided | 0% | 15 |
|
6 of 21 people have participated (28%)
Luke Opperman
Wed 2 Aug 2017 12:56AM
Simple, describe and slightly formalize a current set of processes. Good place to start.
Michele Kipiel
Thu 3 Aug 2017 8:18AM
Very concise and straight to the point, I like every bit of this.
Nathan Schneider Tue 8 Aug 2017 4:21PM
@williammurphy it's a bit of chicken-and-egg. But I don't think we can approve of policies without bylaws as a basis for doing so. Once we have these bylaws in place, we can get to work on spelling out the more detailed policies.
Nathan Schneider Fri 11 Aug 2017 3:37AM
Now that we have bylaws, @mayel, is there a way we can post them to the website? What's the best way to host static content?
Tobias Damm-Luhr @tobiasfdl Fri 11 Aug 2017 4:10AM
@ntnsndr I would very much like to move forward and work on policies, but I noticed that we got a 20% turnout on the bylaws approval proposal, whereas the bylaws say we need 75% of voting members to agree. Do we need a larger percentage of members to vote "Agree" to approve the bylaws?
Mayel de Borniol Fri 11 Aug 2017 8:09AM
@tobiasdammluhr We discussed turnout when drafting the bylaws but figured that requiring any minimum turnout might just freeze us to a standstill, that's why it is worded as "voting members", meaning only members who actually weight in on a proposal are counted (note that this does include people who explicitly "Abstain")
William Murphy · Tue 1 Aug 2017 3:04PM
I like what you have created for the foundational rules, but these bylaws make reference to other policies which I don't see included.
It is difficult to make a decision without knowing what is in the other policies. I know some are in development (e.g. code of conduct). So, if the situation is that we cannot make these policies until we have a process for doing so (i.e. these bylaws), would it be reasonable to make it explicit in this version which policies are pending and define the expectation to add them to the bylaws?