Re: Applications processed + future renewals

[Vincent Untz <vincent vuntz net>]

Le Fri, 30 May 2003 17:23:48 -0700 (PDT), Andy Tai a ecrit :

> You mean to end on Aug 31, 2003, right?

Yes, of course ;-)

> I don't know if that is compatible with the bylaws. 
> If we (meaning the membership committee as an entity,
> regardless of the people in the committee) have
> promised a two year membership interval, then we
> cannot end it prematurely... I think.

I totally agree, but I'm a bit concerned because it may be difficult for
us to tell a bunch of people every month that they have to renew their
membership. If we find a way to do this automatically, then that's
perfect, but right now, we'll have to do this manually. And I'm not sure
we'll be able to do this manually every month.

A solution to that problem would be to move the list of members in some
database and many things would be far easier. I think it might be a good
step (we'd no longer have to write things in some flat files, we could
justhave a simple web interfaces, etc.), but I won't have time to make
some experiments before July/August.

> Also, the membership interval should still be two
> years, as the bylaw says so, and the most recent
> guideline issued by the board saying "one year"
> contradicts the bylaw and the bylaw takes precedence. 
> This was confirmed by board member and the foundation
> director on the foundation mailing list.

Yes, memberships are still two years long.

Vincent

> --- Vincent Untz <vincent vuntz net> wrote:
> > Hi all !
> >
> > I've processed the latest applications, which were
> > quite easy cases.
> > There is only one unprocessed application now :
> > Ramesh Kumar. Ghee,
> > what's the status with this one ?
> >
> > Looking at applications_status.txt, it seems the
> > time of renewals is
> > slowly coming. In September, some people will have
> > to renew their
> > applications. Any idea on how we should handle this?
> > Will we have to
> > process a bunch of renewals every month? Or would it
> > be possible (and
> > a good idea) to make memberships accepted between
> > 2001 September and
> > 2002 August end on 2002 August 31st?
> >
> > Vincent
> >
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