MJ Ray <mjr@phonecoop.coop> wrote:
On Thursday 4 October, from 13:30, come in numbers to the first General Assembly of the KohaLa Association. [...]
I've posted naive translations of the rules and proposed internal regulations of KohaLa to http://serene.ttllp.co.uk/~mjr/StatutsKohala.pdf http://serene.ttllp.co.uk/~mjr/RIkohala.pdf Unhappily, it looks to me that, if those proposals pass: - Membership will not be open to all, requiring learning KohaLa's rules and demonstrating an interest to the satisfaction of the officers; - Members will not have equal voting rights (physical persons get one vote, corporations get two votes, council of administration members share all unnominated votes between them); - Members will not contribute equitably to assets (some pay nothing, some pay double rate and all contributions are kept, even if KohaLa expels the member before end of their subscription); - Therefore, assets will not be democratically and equitably controlled; Additionally: - KohaLa need not offer any training to its elected representatives, which means anyone elected without knowing relevant French law will be in trouble. This has a chilling effect on nominations - all of the current candidates seem to be French, which is not representative of Koha users or developers IMO, but who wants to put their head on a guillotine unsupported?; - KohaLa is not directed to work with other projects or groups; - KohaLa does not concern itself with the wider community. Is it possible to remedy this? If so, how? If not, should koha users and developers rebuke KohaLa? Unhappily, -- MJ Ray http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html tel:+44-844-4437-237 - Webmaster-developer, statistician, sysadmin, online shop builder, consumer and workers co-operative member http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ - Writing on koha, debian, sat TV, Kewstoke http://mjr.towers.org.uk/