[RESULT] Replace the bylaws of Software in the Public Interest

[Jonathan McDowell]

On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 07:14:57AM -0400, David Graham wrote:
> We may be missing the forest for the trees in this whole discussion...
> 
> Resolution 2009-11-04.jmd.1 was specifically designed to avoid the
> problem of quorum in anticipation of a by-laws referendum based on the
> renewal process started in January of 2003.
> 
> The contributing membership expiry resolution can be found here:
> 
> http://www.spi-inc.org/corporate/resolutions/2009/2009-11-04.jmd.1/
> 
> It defines activity for the purpose of remaining an active
> contributing member as having voted in the previous annual election,
> and offers a four-week grace period following a query from the
> membership committee for those who did not vote but wish to remain
> members. 

We've actually run this after the last few board elections. An email is
sent out to anyone who didn't vote and they can indicate they still wish
to remain a contributing member by clicking a link in the members
interface. Our active membership have all done so since the board
election in July 2018 - the most recent clean up was performed in
September 2018.

Details of the first time this was run can be found in the 2016 Annual
Report:

 https://spi-inc.org/corporate/annual-reports/2016.pdf

which took us from 517 contributing members down to 246.

Lack of turnout in this vote was not due to members who are no longer
around.

J.

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