On Tue, 2018-04-17 at 19:09 -0700, Cosimo Cecchi wrote:
We discussed the topic of Events Code of Conduct during today's board meeting. The board intends to consider your motion separately from the Code of Conduct that was proposed by the working group; we will soon proceed to seek membership consultation on the working group proposal.
I think my stance is quite clear. As Allan stated quite literally, he continued working on the Draft without including the rest of the WG in this work. Regardless of whether Allan was acting as a board member or chairman of the WG, he has overstepped his authority by doing so. As such, I do not consider the current documents to be a legitimate proposal from the WG that the board could even start to consider. I do not think that this is just a technicality that can be taken lightly. Should the Board continue to discuss the proposal as is, it would legitimise the misconduct of some CoC WG members. In contrast, my proposal for an open referendum allows the draft to be resubmitted therefore avoiding the above taints.
As per the section 7.10 of the Bylaws of the GNOME Foundation [1], it is your right as a member to propose a referendum if you can gather support from at least 10% of the membership.
Thanks for the short summary of the how a Referendum works when initiated by a community member. Benjamin
Since such process should overall be carried out by the Membership and Election committee, I suggest that you get in touch with them for next steps, but as this would be a novel process for most of us, please let us know if you feel that you need any more support from the board to exercise this right. [1] https://www.gnome.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/bylaws.pdf Thanks, Cosimo
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