On Wed, September 4, 2013 9:25 am, Brian May wrote:
How many people turned up at the meeting? How did the vote go at the meeting? I am sure I heard last night, but forgotten now.
There was 18 votes cast at the meeting, plus several others who did not cast a vote (myself included). The votes cast at the meeting were slightly in favour of disincorporation (10 to 8), but the proxies were overwhelmingly against (3 to 6).
The issue I have is that only a tiny percentage of the overall membership (based on subscribers to luv-announce) bothered to vote or turn up, so you can't really claim that the vote represents the views of the members.
I suspect that the overwhelming majority are thoroughly indifferent, as indicated by the total vote.
If this issue comes up again next year, I think we really need to have a carefully researched document (e.g. a FAQ), which is checked by Linux Australia for correctness, and updated based on mailing list feedback. This needs to be produced sometime before the meeting, so we can be sure people are making decisions based on the correct information.
I'll bring this suggestion up to the committee. All the best, -- Lev Lafayette, BA (Hons), GCertPM, MBA mobile: 0432 255 208 RFC 1855 Netiquette Guidelines http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt