[OpenID] [OpenID board] Bylaws on the Wiki

[DeWitt Clinton]

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On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Martin Atkins <mart at degeneration.co.uk>wrote:

> 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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