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== 16 April 2011==
== 16 April 2011==
A Special General Meeting was called for the 16th April 2010 to address the inactivity of the then secretary by declaring the office vacant as per the rules. The meeting also had three rule changes discussed;
# change to membership application form to bring it inline with the actually practices of the committee, this passed unopposed
# change to electronic voting to bring it inline with the current practices of the Association, this passed unopposed
# change to a number of rules to enable a clear definition of what is an inactive committee member and then enable the committee to take action to replace that member, this passed unopposed
The agenda for the SGM can read [[Meeting:2011 SGM|here]] with the minutes from that meeting available [http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Meeting:2011_SGM/Minutes#Rule_amendments here].
== 9 October 2011 ==

Revision as of 08:47, 29 November 2013

The rules of Wikimedia Australia were originally based on the model rules as supplied by Consumer Affairs Victoria(CAV) and have been subsequently modified.


19th September 2010

At the 2010-2011 AGM the following rule changes were proposed with the Nominating for more than one office passing and the Corporate affiliates failing to get 75% support... (see AGM Minutes)

Nominating for more than one Office

  • Motion: The committee proposes the Association's Rules are changed as follows:
  1. Replace 23 (2) by: A candidate may nominate for one only of the offices and/or as an ordinary member of the committee, but may only be elected to one position.
  2. Add at the end of 23(6): save that the ballot will be conducted in the order of offices as specified in 21(1) followed by the ordinary members of the committee, with any successful candidate for an office withdrawing, if nominated, from the ballot for ordinary membership of the committee.
  • Rationale: The committee recognizes, that where a member stands for an Office and fails, perhaps narrowly, to be elected, the committee may be losing valuable talent as the member can not be elected to any other Office or as an ordinary member of the committee. The committee discussed various broader proposals that would have allowed a member to stand for more than one Office, but there was no consensus to proceed with them. This motion merely allows a member to stand for one Office and as an ordinary member of the committee, withdrawing from the latter before the counting of votes if successful in the former.

Corporate affiliates

The committee proposes the rules be changed to allow corporate affiliates who would be entitled to attend AGMs but would have no vote.

  • Motion: The committee proposes the Association's Rules are changed as follows:
  1. The proposal is: Add a new clause 4(13): Corporations and other bodies may become affiliates of the association by resolution of the management committee. Affiliates will pay such fees as determined by the management committee. Affiliates may send representatives as observers to General Meetings but they can not vote.
  • Rationale: The committee discussed the whole issue of corporate affiliates and corporate membership, the latter differing from the former by having voting rights. There was no consensus to support the latter at this time, but a clause allowing the former was carried without dissent. It allows the committee to appoint affiliates, but does not force them to do so.

16 April 2011

A Special General Meeting was called for the 16th April 2010 to address the inactivity of the then secretary by declaring the office vacant as per the rules. The meeting also had three rule changes discussed;

  1. change to membership application form to bring it inline with the actually practices of the committee, this passed unopposed
  2. change to electronic voting to bring it inline with the current practices of the Association, this passed unopposed
  3. change to a number of rules to enable a clear definition of what is an inactive committee member and then enable the committee to take action to replace that member, this passed unopposed

The agenda for the SGM can read here with the minutes from that meeting available here.

9 October 2011

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