[OSM-talk] Summary of the irc meeting.

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 12:39:05AM +0200, immanuel.scholz at gmx.de wrote:

> * one "member" one vote. Members for initial voting are all registered on the 
> server (mailing list or wiki) on April 1st 

I don't think this works. The Debian UK society had something equivalent
in their constitution which they had to change[0] because of concerns
about the legality of defining a membership automatically[1].

I presume that we don't actually have a formal constitution yet, but
this is worth bearing in mind.

Dominic.

[0] http://wiki.earth.li/DebianUKSocietyConstitution?action=diff&rev2=5&rev1=3
[1] http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/pipermail/debian-uk/2005-September/010577.html

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