On Tuesday 02 October 2007 07:40, MJ Ray wrote:
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
I rather suspect that these documents are copied from some standard forms somewhere. If you google for some of those Articles you will find very similar clauses in the Rules of other French organisations. eg "Article 9 : Conseil d’administration" is similar (not identical) to http://eurolab-france.asso.fr/pages/eurolabfrance/statuts/art9.htm It is only some countries where the idea of estabishing Rules and Regulations is considered to be of major importance. The Americans are very keen on it. Years ago I joined a group working on XML for use in the Law, which was interesting. The Americans then decided that it needed to set up Rules, and nothing else was discussed on the list for months (by which time the membership had dwindled substantially). It then decided to be taken over by OASIS and to require massive subscriptions (which I and most others were unwilling to pay): I have not heard from it since. It is obviously a good idea for a group that is going to meet regularly to have some way of reaching decisions and to deal with eg cash for running expenses. Even a small village sports club will usually have some form of rules. But in the UK there is no legal requirement for the sort of formality set out in these documents, while I suspect that there is in France. r. -- Roger Horne roger@hrothgar.co.uk http://hrothgar.co.uk/YAWS/