2009/3/17 Tom Holden thomas.holden@gmail.com:
Fair points, it was late, I was being dozy.
But note they perhaps make Tango’s objection to our original proposed amendment look just as silly as my new proposed amendment now looks.
If the contract’s only going to be amended in agreement with WMF, doesn’t that rather suggest it would never be amended to be a blank contract? An e-mail to Mike Godwin is all it’d take from a member of the community (not on the board) to make them realise the blatant dirty tricks that were getting pulled.
Personally, I would rather not rely on the WMF's ability to guage UK community opinion. It's not easy to guage the opinion of a community you aren't a member of.
If you’re not convinced by this, how about a third amendment:
“The board may not itself terminate the Chapters Agreement or amend it in any way such that Wiki UK Limited looses the right to the trademark Wikimedia UK.”
That's better. I prefer my version, though. There is no need for a consensus on this, we can vote at the AGM. (You propose an amendment to my motion, we vote on that amendment. If 50% agree to amend it, then we require 75% to agree to implement the amended version, otherwise we require 75% to agree to implement to original version.)
To reiterate, the reason why we want some flexibility to change it is that Mike has indicated all agreements will be being harmonised in the future and there are many other small details which may change over time (termination procedure, commercial operations, visual guidelines, licenses to “Wikimedia [Sub-region/country]” etc etc.)
Are any of those likely to be urgent changes that can't wait until the next AGM?