Re: [Fsfe-uk] Proposed constitution for a UA

[MJ Ray]

Matt King wrote:
> And behold that on Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 08:51:15PM +0000, MJ Ray did thus 
> splutter:

Cute, but overlong. ;-)

> Is there a legal reason why only over 18? Remember that a significant
> proportion of geeks are not.

Probably not for mere membership, but where you do you set the cut-off? 
The age of criminal responsibility?  (12 isn't it?)

> I never have seen a [reasonable] point in this. I understand the
> arguments, but none of them stand up.

It is to try to ensure entropy in the committee, in order to prevent things
stagnating.  Why doesn't that stand up for you?  Can we give it some logical
viagra?

> Email is more insecure even than what passes for mail today. Some
> mention of GPG should probably be in here.

I'm not sure.  GPG may not last forever.  I've put in something along the
lines of "email according to the provision in standing orders" which allows
it to be updated more easily and buys us a little time, as the SOs need to
be adopted by the first committee after formation.

> Speaking of GPG, I am pretty sure that some legal blurb for usage of
> GPG exists. If not, I'm sure it can't be that hard to write.

I believe John Seago is looking into sort of thing this a little, but is
having trouble locating one particular book, entitled: The Law of Meetings,
ISBN 0-7121-1227-8.  If your local libraries have a copy, I'd appreciate
knowing and I can see what I can do in the way of Inter-Library Loans from
Norwich or Cambridge.

I'd appreciate more hard and fast pointers on uses of GPG.

> > I'd like to move forwards with this swiftly.  If enough of us are
> > going to the RMS talk, maybe we could adopt this constitution
> > beforehand?
> I shan't be. Mind you being the 12th today, I should probably have
> responded to this a tad sooner.

Would have been nice, but I budget my time to account for you lot ;-)  I
shall hopefully have a semi-polished copy with me, but I don't know if it
will be good enough.  The next opportunity is at the Sheffield meeting.
-- 
MJR