<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 6 Mar 2009, at 11:07, 80n wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 9:54 AM, graham <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:graham@theseamans.net">graham@theseamans.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">Frederik Ramm wrote:<br> <br> > I believe the Foundation intends to give a vote *only* to those who were<br> > members in good standing as of January 23rd so your few days had better<br> > be 40-ish if you want to have a say in the matter.<br> <br> </div>How do I find out if I'm a member in good standing? Is it possible to<br> check the register of members? I paid for membership - once, quite a<br> long time ago - and have never received any subsequent request for<br> "subscription and other sum (if any) which shall be due and payable to<br> the Association in respect of my membership" - so I guess I've probably<br> been dropped from the list. Is that the way it works? No reminders, and<br> silently dropped? Or do you stay a member as long as you haven't been<br> asked for another subscription, terminating at death? That would seem to<br> be the implication of the 'general' section in the articles of association.<br> <br> </blockquote></div>Graham<br>If you were a member, but for whatever reason, are not fully paid up, then we give reasonable latitude to pay the fee and be re-instated. You would not lose your right to vote.<br><br>It's not our intention that members should be penalised because we or you missed an email or a cheque got lost in the post or something.</blockquote><div><br></div>Sounds like this should all get tighened up before the next elections or we might get into 'hanging chad' legal disputes!</div><div><br></div><div>I do strongly support the setting up of a members mailing list</div><div><br></div><div>I also strongly support the idea that regular contributor (ie have contributed in three consecutive months) automatically become members and are then dropped if they fail to contribute for over a year, something like that anyway. It would suddenly mean that we had 1,000's of contributors and it would be much harder to dominate the foundation.</div><div><br></div><div>I know this has been discussed before and deferred, however that is not a reason not to review it before the next elections. Particularly as the whole membership thing seems to be pretty flakey at present.</div><div><br></div><div>With all this, lets remember where we have come from and how well we are doing. There is no blame in regard to where we are, but that is not a reason not to get to a more professional place rapidly.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Peter</div><div><br></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><br> <br>80n<br> _______________________________________________<br>legal-talk mailing list<br><a href="mailto:legal-talk@openstreetmap.org">legal-talk@openstreetmap.org</a><br>http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk<br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>