[Koha] Calling for volunteers to join the sub-committee for the Koha Fund!

[Brendan Gallagher]

Please excuse the cross-posting...  (Please share this with others beyond
these two lists - Thank you kindly)

Calling for volunteers to join the sub-committee for the Koha Fund!

What I propose is that those that volunteer for the sub-committee would
volunteer for a 1 year term.

*Immediate responsibilities* would include creating the "by-laws" that the
sub-committee would act by.  This would include taking the lead on creating
a document (in an open forum) that would be presented to the Koha community
for a vote of acceptance, at least one week before the next general meeting
(7 days).  Allowing for time for comments on the document and others to
read the document, so that the document could be adjusted and corrected in
time for a vote at the general meeting.
**One note here is that if there is a bylaw that would potentially exclude
one of the original volunteering sub-committee members (who knows right),
that they would willingly step-down once the by-laws are completed (OR is
that really a worry and we just really need to make sure we have enough
volunteers to get a committee?)**

Once the "by-laws" have been accepted by a majority vote in a general
meeting, then the original volunteer members, would serve the rest of the
year as part of the sub-committee for the Koha-fund.  The main purpose of
the sub-committee is to creatively raise money for Koha to be spent on Koha
(most likely to begin money would be spent on sign-offs, QA-time, bugzilla
maintenance cleaning, for example right now we have 26 critical bugs with
no patch (so do those really need a patch or does bugzilla really need to
be cleaned up?) ).  So those that are interested in joining this to help
make the bylaws so this is a successful venture and then being an active
advocate for the Fund - please join up.  You do not need to be a developer
or anything close to that.

I propose that we leave the volunteering open until 1 week before the next
general meeting which is 8 April 2015 at 19:00 UTC.  That should give
people enough time to add their names here -->
http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Fundraising ...  Look at the Fundraising
Committee section for a place.  Then at the general meeting April 8th we
can vote on the names present and then move forward.

So Dates...

Starting now, until April 1st ---> people place their names on the wiki list
for being a potential volunteer for the sub-committee  (I would also be
willing to keep this open until April 7th if others agree to that)

April 1st to April 8th -->  Community has a chance to review the names on
their own time and be prepared for voting at the general meeting.

April 8th - Sub-committee volunteers are confirmed...

Please don't hesitate to ask any question at all, the more we have before
we vote on April 8th the better and more prepared everyone will be!  (no
surprises)

Cheers and Thank much,
Brendan Gallagher (bag)




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Brendan A. Gallagher
ByWater Solutions
CEO