[Osmf-talk] Articles of Association Update 2.0

[Simon Poole]

As I threatened last September at the AGM, we need to address a couple
of leftovers. None of these are as pressing as the last update, but we
might as well get them behind us as soon as possible.

Please see the list at
http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Issues_with_the_current_Articles

Two of them are simply editorial and I assume we do not need to discuss
them. Further I believe that there is likely requiring a GM at least
every 18 months from a governance point of view.

Leaves two larger issues. Currently the only way people that are not
present at the AGM can vote is via proxy, aka nominating somebody to
vote on your behalf (with instructions). THis is rather cumbersome to
say the least and, at least I, would suggest complementing the mechanism
with a pure online voting system. While I haven't discussed this with
council, adding this raises the question if it would be possible to have
such votes outside of the context of a GM, I intend to investigate.

The final issue that we didn't include last year was further asset lock
downs (further there are already restrictions on what can be done with
the assets in the case of dissolution of the Foundation). On the one
hand these may make it easier to get more donations (I somewhat doubt
it, likely we would need charity status for that), on the other hand
these should be seen as a certain amount of control on a potential rogue
board.

As I suggested last year, I believe this should simply take the form of
a list of specific things the board cannot do without a special
resolution passed by the membership, some suggestions:
- dispose of any intellectual property
- transfer any intellectual property
- propose a licence change to the active contributors (the process is
currently not defined, so we may as well do it here)

Maybe there are some more things we would like to add?

Simon

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