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<div>Note major copy paste accident:</div><div><br></div><div><span style="color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important;"><span class="font" style="font-family:-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol""><span class="size" style="font-size:16px">person shall cease to be a member or an associate member (as the case may be) if:</span></span></span><br></div><div>(...) are not contractually bound to vote a certain way.</div><div><br></div><div>22 Oct 2020, 21:15 by rory.mccann@osmfoundation.org:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>Hello OSMF members,<br></div><div><br></div><div>To follow up from my email of 11th October 2020¹, here's a more detailed draft of a change to OSMF's Articles of Association² to prevent an OSMF member's employer from forcing a member to vote a certain way. Since the employer might not be an OSMF member, we can phrase it as “you can only be a member if you're free to vote”. We welcome your feedback.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Current Version:<br></div><div><br></div><div>12. No person shall become a member or associate member of the Foundation unless they<br></div><div>(1) have completed an application in a form approved by the directors;<br></div><div>(2) have paid the appropriate fee;<br></div><div>(3) have not previously been expelled from the Foundation;<br></div><div>(4) are not appealing a resolution to expel by the board;<br></div><div>(5) their membership account (if they have one) is not in arrears.<br></div><div><br></div><div>and<br></div><div><br></div><div>17. A person shall cease to be a member or an associate member (as the case may be) if:<br></div><div>(1) they die or cease to exist;<br></div><div>(2) they withdraw their membership (or associate membership) by giving the Foundation 7 days' notice in writing;<br></div><div>(3) their membership account is more than one year in arrears;<br></div><div>(4) the board resolves to expel them, subject to any successful appeal being made under these articles.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Possible New Version:<br></div><div><br></div><div>12. No person shall become a member or associate member of the Foundation unless they<br></div><div>(1) have completed an application in a form approved by the directors;<br></div><div>(2) have paid the appropriate fee;<br></div><div>(3) have not previously been expelled from the Foundation;<br></div><div>(4) are not appealing a resolution to expel by the board;<br></div><div>(5) their membership account (if they have one) is not in arrears++; and++<br></div><div>(6) are free to exercise their powers as a member (or associated member) (e.g. voting on resolutions, or for the board of directors) according to their own desires, and are not contractually bound to vote a certain way.<br></div><div><br></div><div>and<br></div><div><br></div><div>17. A person shall cease to be a member or an associate member (as the case may be) if:<br></div><div>(1) they die or cease to exist;<br></div><div>(2) they withdraw their membership (or associate membership) by giving the Foundation 7 days' notice in writing;<br></div><div>(3) their membership account is more than one year in arrears;<br></div><div>(4) the board resolves to expel them, subject to any successful appeal being made under these articles;<br></div><div>(5) are no longer free to exercise their powers as a member (or associated member) (e.g. voting on resolutions, or for the board of directors) according to their own desires, and are not contractually bound to vote a certain way.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Combined Diff for hackmd.io:<br></div><div><br></div><div>12. No person shall become a member or associate member of the Foundation unless they<br></div><div>(1) have completed an application in a form approved by the directors;<br></div><div>(2) have paid the appropriate fee;<br></div><div>(3) have not previously been expelled from the Foundation;<br></div><div>(4) are not appealing a resolution to expel by the board; ~~and~~<br></div><div>(5) their membership account (if they have one) is not in arrears ~~.~~ ++; and++<br></div><div>++(6) are free to exercise their powers as a member (or associated member) (e.g. voting on resolutions, or for the board of directors) according to their own desires, and are not contractually bound to vote a certain way.++<br></div><div><br></div><div>and<br></div><div><br></div><div>17. A person shall cease to be a member or an associate member (as the case may be) if:<br></div><div>(1) they die or cease to exist;<br></div><div>(2) they withdraw their membership (or associate membership) by giving the Foundation 7 days' notice in writing;<br></div><div>(3) their membership account is more than one year in arrears;<br></div><div>(4) the board resolves to expel them, subject to any successful appeal being made under these articles ++;++ ~~.~~<br></div><div>++(5) are no longer free to exercise their powers as a member (or associated member) (e.g. voting on resolutions, or for the board of directors) according to their own desires, and are not contractually bound to vote a certain way.++<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>This is currently just an idea. This may, or may not, be the final text. The board might not even propose this. Please provide feedback.<br></div><div><br></div><div>You can reply to this email publicly to the osmf-talk@ list, or you can contact the boar privately (board@osmfoundation.org). Please state if you would like us to treat your email as confidential. Please feel able tell other OSMF members about this topic.<br></div><div><br></div><div>-- <br></div><div><br></div><div>Rory<br></div><div><br></div><div>[¹] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/osmf-talk/2020-October/007231.html<br></div><div>[²] https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Articles_of_Association<br></div><div><br></div><div>_______________________________________________<br></div><div>osmf-talk mailing list<br></div><div>osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org<br></div><div>https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/osmf-talk<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div> </body>
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