Yesterday, Stephen and I had a chat and we agreed on: A minimum of one third of the members can call for a Special Resolution Meeting, with notice given to all members at least 7 days in advance. However, a majority of two thirds of the members' votes shall be required to remove a director, or the whole Board. --Abbas.
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 13:15:26 +0300 From: oslimoke@gmail.com To: wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Bylaws: ChapCom's Comments
Since we are a Voluntary NGO I think your experience and opinion moves me.The Board members will be volunteering and as such I hope we won't have much feud over positions as the "Bigger" the position,the more work is involved...I agree lets elect Board members as A Block and then they can sort among themselves... Cheers
On 7/13/11, Abbas Mahmood abbasjnr@hotmail.com wrote:
Yay, to Asaf! At least I got someone to back me up :)
From: abartov@wikimedia.org Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:39:14 -0700 To: wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Bylaws: ChapCom's Comments
My two cents, just out of personal experience (definitely not a Foundation position!) -- I think Abbas's suggestion is more practical. Pick the group of people who would (collectively) provide the best leadership for WMKE, and let them figure out what division of labor within the board makes sense to them. My experience in NGOs (I have founded 2 and been a board member in 4) is that that is the best way to get good results.
Cheers, Asaf
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Limoke Oscar oslimoke@gmail.com wrote:
Abbas,
I think someone would vie for a post s/he thinks he can comfortably
serve.I mean I wouldnt say vie for a secretary if am not
interestde.Let someone choose a position s/he thinks he is in a
position to serve.
Another drawback is that how would the 'creme de le creme' decide
amongst themselves who should be chair,vice ans staff?wouldn't this
cause some cold blood and tension among themselves?
On 7/13/11, Abbas Mahmood abbasjnr@hotmail.com wrote:
Oscar,
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 19:37:57 +0300
From: oslimoke@gmail.com
To: wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Bylaws: ChapCom's Comments
About Electing the Board,members should be electing a position
based.i.e electing X for the post of Chairperson and so forth....
Erm, I think this type of method has a disadvantage: for instance, 5 people
vie for the Chairperson seat and maybe only 1 person vies for the Secretary
post; definitely, the Secretary will get elected; since (s)he has no
competitor, and maybe out of the 4 that lost the Chair's seat, one of them
could have been a better Board member than the secretary who had won. What
I'm trying to say is that i think it's better for voters to vote for their
best top 5 candidates; and the Board members will later on delegate their
respective positions themselves. By doing so, we will get the creme de la
creme to be on the Board.
Abbas.
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