[OpenID] [OpenID board] Bylaws on the Wiki

Martin Atkins mart at degeneration.co.uk
Wed Dec 17 22:38:51 UTC 2008


David Recordon wrote:
> Students role into individuals at this point and I'd guess that 
> government fits into non-profits.
> 
> While it is a wiki, you can't just change the bylaws as they're a legal 
> document which the board needs to vote to change.  I know Bill had been 
> working on some changes to them, not sure what happened to it all, and 
> we should also vote to update them to reflect the new fee structure. 
>  The wiki page should however capture the current bylaws if we plan to 
> refer people to it.
> 

I'm wary of having multiple copies of this lying around, since at some 
point they're going to get out of sync.

Things like the bylaws should be in exactly one place. If alternate 
formats are desired, they should be automatically generated from the 
source and guaranteed to always match the original exactly.

However, if the complaint was just that folks don't want it as a PDF we 
ought to be able to make the canonical version HTML and just throw away 
the PDF to keep things simple. I assume this was a wordprocessor 
document at some point, so it should be trivial for whoever holds that 
copy to export it to HTML.

This really isn't the sort of thing that belongs on a wiki.




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