I know, I was saying that I think we should be looking for a board volunteer AND a new delegate volunteer.

I really appreciate the time you put in, and I wish I had the availability to share some of that work.
Andrew R Gross, (he/him)
412.657.5332    -   shrad.org


On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 12:41 PM Jake <jake@spaz.org> wrote:
Andrew I literally can't do it, like i said.  I am already in another role in
the omni commons organization.

someone else needs to step up, and attend one meeting which will probably just
be people sitting around making jokes about being "board"

-jake

On Mon, 10 Oct 2022, Andrew R Gross wrote:

> Either way, we could use more volunteers to interface with Omni. I really
> appreciate that it's another thing that happens to fall on Jake. If I was
> available I'd totally volunteer, but I'm not.
>
> Anyone else want to take one for the team (by which I really mean Jake,
> the-one-person-team)?
>
> On Fri, Oct 7, 2022, 4:57 AM Patrik D'haeseleer <patrikd@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> In an ideal world, these would be the same, and "delegate" would just be
>> our synonym for "Omni board member". That way each delegate meeting is
>> essentially a board meeting, and whatever gets voted on there has legal
>> weight behind it. That is how the bylaws were originally designed, and why
>> we are using the same quorum for the delegates meeting as outlined in our
>> bylaws. Having to hold separate delegates meetings and board meetings
>> whenever any legal changes need to be made (like adding or removing member
>> collectives, or authorizing people to use the bank account) just doesn't
>> make any sense.
>>
>> In practice, whomever is willing to have their legal name on paperwork and
>> whomever is willing to go to the delegates meeting might not be the same
>> person. If we wanted to do everything 100% by the book, the official board
>> member should give a proxy to whomever attends the board/delegates meeting
>> on their behalf.
>>
>> Patrik
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 8:23 PM Andrew R Gross via sudo-discuss <
>> sudo-discuss@sudoroom.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Is this different than the delegate?
>>>
>>> *Andrew R Gross, (he/him)*
>>> 412.657.5332    -   shrad.org <http://www.shrad.org>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 8:17 PM Jake via sudo-discuss <
>>> sudo-discuss@sudoroom.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> sudoroom needs to pick a member to be the board member of the omni
>>>> commons,
>>>> which is the organization that owns the building.
>>>>
>>>> because of the way the omni commons is structured, its board is made up
>>>> of
>>>> members of the member collectives.
>>>>
>>>> we need someone (not me) to volunteer to fill this role, and that
>>>> person's full
>>>> name will be recorded as a board member, and they will have to attend
>>>> the board
>>>> meeting which might be boring.  It is a legal requirement that the omni
>>>> commons
>>>> board meets at least once per year.
>>>>
>>>> We need to send someone for this right away since it's time to schedule
>>>> the
>>>> meeting.
>>>>
>>>> please volunteer.
>>>> -jake
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