<br><br>On 4/30/07, Adam Chlipala <<a href="mailto:adamc@hcoop.net">adamc@hcoop.net</a>> wrote:<br>> Terrence Brannon wrote:<br><br>> > Was the strategy for migration put before us as a coop? Were the<br>> > project management and release control issues placed before us as a
<br>> > coop? What can we do as a coop to have better project management and<br>> > release control?<br>> ><br>> <br>> We've talked about this before. There is no legal basis for a<br>> requirement of discussing these issues with members before making
<br>> decisions, nor have we ever agreed on an informal culture that<br>> encourages that. We made a conscious decision in the construction of<br>> our bylaws to have the members elect a board of directors that makes
<br>> these decisions.<br><br>If that is the case, then you need to make this reality a bit clearer on the frontpage:<br><br>FIRST, above you state -<br> <span style="font-weight: bold;">nor have we ever agreed on an informal culture that encourages that.
<br></span>But on the front of the website it is stated - <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br></span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">We also make an effort to decide as much as possible through open discussion by</span>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"> the members</span><br><br>SECOND, the frontpage says:<br><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span class="point">You can save money.</span> You get all this for a
price ... dropping as new members join.<br></div>But the fact is that you are asking JC Hallgren for 100.00, this is 20 months worth of service at the 5.00/month rate he is accustomed to. <br><br>I think my question is: what responsibilities does the Board of Directors have towards me as a member? I feel victimized to be a part of an organization that is caught is so deep in debt for no tangible gain and now they want huge sums of money. And yet they tell me they dont have to tell me anything about what they discuss and decide.
<br><br>I will re-iterate my request that we get off the old servers immediately to make our rental fees on the new ones count. Please address this request with a yes or no and a reason why.<br><br>If nothing else, let us, as a cooperative, put a hard cap on the amount of money that we will spend paying for a server that we cannot use. Why couldn't this open-ended experimentation have been done on a personal box somewhere? Apache and AFS are free software.
<br><br>We might've been able to approach sourceforge about this, especially given all the interview press Hcoop has gotten.<br><br><br><br>-- <br>HIV/AIDS on trial - <a href="http://www.aliveandwell.org/">http://www.aliveandwell.org/
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