Annette Muehlberg ha scritto:
Dear All,
I think we should use the drive we just picked up in forming EURALO to give all European ALSes and interested individuals the chance to join the follow up process.
As far as I understood we wanted to have one big General Assembly (GA) online in which we discuss those issues we could not accomplish yet at the Lisbon meeting, such as incorporation and the nominations for the EURALO Board and the 2 european ALAC seats. I think we should stick to this procedure.
Actually, what we agreed is that: - we will have a certain procedure to appoint positions, which will include a quasi-GA (we agreed not to have a vote if not necessary, though we might still want to have an online GA to ratify the appointments) in the first week of May, to finalize elections of the EURALO Board and ALAC representatives; - we will task the newly elected EURALO Board with analyzing the issues of incorporation and individual membership; - we will have a formal (offline or online) GA before the end of 2007, to take a decision on these issues (and also on whether EURALO ALAC members should be a part of the EURALO Board). Of course nothing prevents the EURALO Board from calling another GA immediately having been elected, but I'd rather first discuss and come to agreement on these issues, and then call a GA for the formal adoption (if possible). You can find this in the agreed procedure for elections (which I mailed a couple of days ago) and in the final Bylaws, for which we're still waiting for a clean text by Nick, AFAIK, but these days have been crazy and I guess we'll have it in a few days - so this is the text agreed: ===== Preamble This document will be used for the time being as operating principles. The issues of the incorporation of the Association and of the possible addition of individual members to EURALO will be analyzed by the EURALO Board and discussed in a General Assembly at latest by the end of year 2007. For the time being, the EURALO representatives in the ALAC will be considered as additional non-voting members of the EURALO Board, pending discussion of the matter in a General Assembly at latest by the end of year 2007. ==== Anyway, the actual discussion could start now! I don't think that anyone is opposed to individual participation per se, what I've seen is people who do not see practical ways to give individuals the right to vote and not just to participate in discussions. If those who support individual membership would like to present a specific proposal about practical details of how this could work, I think that it would be a good starting point. Ciao, -- vb. Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu <-------- --------> finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/ <--------