[Announcements] Proposed Sakai Foundation By-law Amendements

[Michael Korcuska]

Greetings,

The Sakai Foundation Board of directors is proposing two changes to  
the existing bylaws. To change the bylaws we need to circulate the  
proposed changes to the community for 30 days of commentary. In  
addition, for one of the changes we need approval of the Sakai  
Foundation Membership.

You can read all about the changes and the process for approving them  
at http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/x/f4DnAw.

To briefly summarize:

Change 1: To stop requiring that the board to approve/appoint the  
conference program chair. Even if the Board wants to do this it is an  
operational issue and shouldn't be in the bylaws.

Change 2: To allow the Board to appoint up to 2 individuals to the  
board. Today, every Board member is elected. We'd like to flexibility  
to recruit expertise from outside the community (e.g. financial  
expertise).

Process: After a 30-day period of commentary, the Board and the  
Membership would officially approve these changes and new by-laws  
would be filed with the State of Michigan.  The particular details of  
Membership voting will be announced at a later time.  The goal is to  
have this completed by the end of October in time for the next round  
of Sakai Board elections.

Let me know if you have any questions. Or better yet add comments to  
the wiki page or discuss this on the  
management at collab.sakaiproject.org email list.  You can join the  
management list by visiting http://collab.sakaiproject.org/mailman/listinfo/management

Best regards,

Michael


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Michael Korcuska
Executive Director, Sakai Foundation
mkorcuska at sakaifoundation.org
phone: +1 510-931-6559
mobile (US): +1 510-599-2586
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