[H-GEN] Text of motions for constitutional changes I will be putting at the AGM

[Daniel Devine]

*poke*

I'm alive, I attended this weekend since I am currently back in town 
(and able to attend AGM I expect). I saw new members and heard 
interesting technical chatter this weekend so the club is humming along 
nicely enough IMO.

It'd be nice to pull an early 2000's style crowd more often and maybe we 
still can manage that if somebody puts their hand up and takes hold of 
an idea/event to make it so. Last year or whatever an "into to Ubuntu" 
talk at a UQ club pulled a large crowd so something as simple as that 
can work. Now that Pycon is sliding out of focus the HUMBUGs members can 
set their sights on something new.

On 2015-08-17 07:54 PM, matt wrote:
> An AGM is a Special General Meeting Russell. My point is that if we
> don't have a quorum then nobody has votes. Nobody can vote. So what
> you are proposing simply can't work. So how do we resolve it? Surely
> the best thing is to nominate a default organisation in the
> constitution.

I think at that point in time some sort of "special" SGM should be held 
- with appropriate notice given of course. A traditional quorum may not 
be reached but surely only the people who are left are likely to care 
about the assets - so only the remaining voters will care! As long as 
everybody who is left is happy I really don't see the issue. I guess in 
essence this is what Gary was probably trying to say - we can cross that 
bridge when we come to it.

> For me x would be Linux Australia.

LA do sponsor some great/deserving communities, don't get me wrong. 
However hardcoding any particular organisation/fund into the 
constitution is a mistake as it could easily prevent assets and/or funds 
going to those who have a more immediate need.It also inhibits the 
ability to split assets among groups. Perhaps there is a local group can 
best utilise the physical assets and a non-local group needs the 
monetary funds.

Perhaps if people have a suggestion such as yours (or mine) they can put 
it in another thread rather than shitting up this one.

-- 
Daniel Devine