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<p>Hi all,</p>
<p>On 2016-11-28 08:41, Bernhard Ströbl wrote:</p>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">Hi Tim,</span><br /><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">thank you for your hard work accomodating all these proposals.</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">I do think the document has improved a lot. Some points, though:</span><br /> 1) section 6.1 "The outgoing PSC member shall automatically receive a nomination unless he/she no longer wishes to serve on the board." "board" must be replaced with PSC.</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">Correct:</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">.... he/she no longer wishes to server on the PSC. (replace board with PSC).</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace"><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">2) section 6.3: same, "board" must be replaced with PSC.</span></div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">Correct: board should be replaced by PSC again.</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace"><br /> 3) sections 7.1 and 8 (numbers 4 and 5) contradict: either the PSC elects the board members or the general meeting does. In this respect the second to last sentence in section 8 needs to be revised, too. @Andreas: I would think that the board members have to be elected by the AGM (assuming Swiss legals stuff does not differ that much from German)</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">You are correct, Bernhard. There is a contradiction.</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">According to the Swiss law, the AGM votes on the board (see <a href="https://www.admin.ch/opc/en/classified-compilation/19070042/index.html#a65">https://www.admin.ch/opc/en/classified-compilation/19070042/index.html#a65</a>), which says:</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace"><span>"The general meeting of members decides on admission and exclusion of members, appoints the committee and decides all matters which are not reserved to other governing bodies of the association." (clarifications: general meeting = AGM or extraordinary general meetings, committee=board="Vorstand" in german language).</span></div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">Normally, there is only the board (commmittee=Vorstand), not the board and the PSC. The PSC doesn't have to exist by law. It is a special construct of QGIS.ORG. So I would agree with Bernhard that 7.1 should be modified such, that the PSC is not voting on the board, but the AGM is.</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">Also in 7.5 it shouldn't be the PSC who votes, but the AGM.</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">Tim - can we ask you please to correct all of the above points that Bernhard raised.</div>
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