[Osmf-talk] AoA changes in Dec?

[Rory McCann (OSMF Board)]

On 11.10.20 16:15, Simon Poole wrote:
> (in general for all 4 suggestions you didn't indicate -why- you 
> would want to propose the change, leaving it to speculation).

because this is just the first email as a heads up. 🙂 This is just the 
first part of a conversation, in an attempt to work openly.

> 
>>  * that people who get free membership via the Active Contribution 
>> Membership system get regular membership, not just the current 
>> associate membership;
> 
> Doesn't that run afoul of the guarantee regular members have to commit to?

Doesn't that guarentee require that they pay any debts if it's wound up?

We have asked the OSMF's corporate counsel, and they said it's OK to 
have members who have not paid any fee like this.

>>  * that if you vote in accordance with orders from your employer or 
>> other authority,  you aren't a member any more and your vote doesn't 
>> count;
> 
> Again, while I think I can make a well educated guess at what you intend 
> by making such a change, it would be better to spell it out. That said, 
> it is completely unclear to me how you would want to differentiate 
> between a member voting out of their own free will in a certain way and 
> doing the same on orders of their employer. Essentially this would boil 
> down to requiring members to refrain from voting on issues their 
> employers have asked them to vote in a specific way, disenfranchising 
> them of their voting rights.

Again, first rough draft. Usually humans make decisions &  agree on 
facts by collecting & evaluating evidence and coming to a decision. I 
presume something like that would happen. The AoA says you cannot be a 
member if you're dead, but don't spell out how to differentiate that 
either.