Talk:Meetings/2009 AGM/Notice/Original

I noticed a couple of issues with this notice during the last board meeting, namely:

1. What happens if resolution 3 (or resolution 2) is rejected? There should be a fall-back option.
2. There was talk of having a second level of membership, "Friends"; see Membership/Rules. Do we want to consider this here? If we do have this level, then we need to set rates: should this be done here, or discussed at the AGM and potentially set by a board resolution?

Also, Meetings/2009 AGM/Resolutions says about the chapters agreement "The Directors may not, except with approval of the Membership by Special Resolution, terminate or amend this Chapter Agreement.". I would expect that there will be times when the WMF wants to update/modify the agreement; do these need really need to go through a Special Resolution? I notice that "the directors have received one resolution from a member"; considering all members are currently directors, this confuses me.

Finally, there seems to be some debate still about whether we're going for 25 or 26 April: have we officially decided on one of these dates yet?

Apologies for not raising these points sooner. Mike Peel 00:15, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for raising these points. Point 1 I've already commented on here - Talk:Meetings/2009_AGM/Resolutions - please let me know if you agree.

Point 2 - you're right to raise and it should be decided on. I think we should have a way to involve people who want to keep their real name secret or for some other reason don't want to sign up to membership. It doesn't need to be particular formal or have AGM approval and hence I'm not sure we need to do it now - I suggest we leave for the next Board to consider.

The resolution entrenching the chapters agreement was suggested by Tango here. I've assumed he will be approved as a member by the time this notice goes out! We can't stop a member proposing a resolution, but the Board can recommend it is voted down - as, I may suggest next week when this is discussed.

We confirmed it would be Sunday - see http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetings/2009-03-10/IRC#.23wikimedia-uk-board ~21:17 155.202.254.82 18:16, 12 March 2009 (UTC) (AndrewRT)

My intention with the resolution about the chapter agreement was that the membership's approval would be required for any modifications, whether proposed by the WMUK board or the WMF. You are, of course, welcome to propose an amendment and we can debate it, either here or at the AGM. Personally, I don't think the WMF and WMUK board should be able to overrule the WMUK membership on something as important as the chapter agreement. --Tango 17:29, 14 March 2009 (UTC)