[FC-discuss] Bylaws meeting, Monday 3 Sept, 8:30 pm EDT

[Seth Johnson]

Gavin Baker wrote:
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> Hi Seth,
> 
> Seth Johnson wrote:
> > I've been waiting to see the revisions from the July 29th IRC
> > meeting.  Now, as of Tuesday, there's no By-Laws text at all -- which
> > I can appreciate -- but the mission statement up there still doesn't
> > reflect the discussion.
> 
> Um, it appears the page was vandalized? At any rate, I've restored it.


Ah, okay.


> >  I thought it was pretty clear at that time
> > that people were going to use some other phrasing and not use the term
> > "intellectual property," and there was a whole discussion on that
> > point.  Certainly Gavin wasn't keen on taking it out, but I thought
> > the outcome was that the discussion produced at least one or two
> > phrasings that did not include that term.
> 
> The most current draft is at:
> http://wiki.freeculture.org/Bylaws_RC2
> 
> which has the mission statement as (I believe) was decided at the 29
> July meeting, specifically:
> 
> "to advance cultural participation in the digital age and to defend the
> public interest in information and technology policy, including
> copyrights and patents"
> 
> Sorry about the confusion.


Wow, that appears to be pretty much precisely what I recall we came up
with.  Nice.


> As a general note, we've been somewhat behind in merging in changes
> as-agreed, so at any time, the draft of RC2 might not reflect what's
> been decided. Anything you notice that seems to be this case, please
> note it on the talk page for RC2, as it helps ensure that nothing gets
> forgotten.
> 
> (On the process: We've been logging each meeting, but haven't taken
> minutes each time, which means we're sometimes left with a long log to
> sift through to find what was decided. Whoops!)


Okay, carry on.  Don't get caught up in membership condition debates! 
:-)


Seth



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> Gavin Baker
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> gavin at freeculture.org
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> > Seth
> >
> >
> > Elizabeth Stark wrote:
> >> rumor has it that this is the last one!
> >>
> >> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >> From: Gavin Baker <gavin at freeculture.org >
> >> Date: Aug 30, 2007 8:56 AM
> >> Subject: [FC-Chapters] Bylaws meeting, Monday 3 Sept, 8:30 pm EDT
> >> To: chapters at freeculture.org
> >>
> > Join us as we wrap up the release candidate of the bylaws!
> >
> > Monday, 3 September
> > 8:30 pm Eastern time (EDT)
> > IRC: #freeculture on irc.freenode.net
> >
> > http://wiki.freeculture.org/Bylaws
> >
> > An agenda will be available at:
> >
> > http://wiki.freeculture.org/2007-09-03
> >
> > :)
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