[Osmf-talk] Members, associate members, and running for board

[Simon Poole]

Given that to be electable we need to know who the candidates are in
real life and you are by the very act of standing for election giving up
anonymity, I would suggest that potential candidates simply switch their
membership status from associate to normal, which means supplying your
address details to the OSMF and request normal membership. The
membership dues are currently the same making this is very low overhead.

For actually taking office the normal membership is a hard requirement.

Notes:

- while you can switch back to associate membership, once you have been
a normal member your details will remain in the register (as they where
during the time you were a member)

- at the time we discussed restricting switching membership classes but
decided against it.

Simon


Am 27.09.2014 12:08, schrieb Paul Norman:
> I'm not certain of the details of the Companies Act and AoA. If running
> for the OSMF board, do you have to be a member in the companies' act
> sense, or can you be an associate member?
> 
> I believe any board member must be a member, not an associate member,
> but I'm not sure about candidates. It's also worth noting that board
> member's contact information is deposited with the Companies House[1],
> where it is publicly viewable[2], and the primary reason for being an
> associate member would be privacy concerns.
> 
> [1] The Companies Act makes some exceptions
> [2] If you can figure out the painful interface the Companies House uses
> 
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