On Wed, 4 Sep 2013, Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> wrote:
On 4/09/2013 8:37 AM, Bianca Gibson wrote:
How many people submitted proxy votes?
There were 12, of which one was technically invalid, so only 11 could be counted -- it wasn't clear which one was invalid, but counting the full 12, it was 9 against and 3 for, so effectively 8 to 3 or 9 to 2 .... still overwhelming against.
Yes, we had some weird discussions on the list about how merging with LA would destroy LUV with people neglecting the fact that it wouldn't make any noticable changes for the members. We even had one member quit in protest even though they hadn't had any significant involvement with LUV in the past.
If a council went crazy members could call an SGM and vote to remove them.
Frankly, I believe the /crazy/ factor was way over exaggerated by Russell (his analysis of why the motion failed).
Daniel made a big issue out of it in his talk, he even had a LibreOffice presentation about all the ways that LA might mess things up. Either Daniel totally misread the situation and spent most of his talking time on things that didn't convince anyone or the membership were convinced by the FUD. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/