[Koha] Koha Fundraising Committee Draft Terms of Reference

[Joann Ransom]

I have had some thoughts:

1. Structure: I see no reason why a person should be limited to 3 years of service. I am happy for people to offer themselves up for election as many times as they like; the community will decide if they are still adding value to the committee;

2. Meetings: In addition to monthly formal meetings, my expectation is that the committee will make heavy use of email for discussion and debate in order to accommodate a globally disbursed committee straddling many timezones. This includes the ability to pass motions via email PROVIDED THAT such decisions and resolutions are recorded in the minutes of the monthly meetings; 

3.   Quorum: how about at least 50% of the membership. The reason being that 3 is only 30% of a 9 member committee. If the committee is 7 then you require 4 for a quorum. I am loath to support a 'miniority' rules situation.

I have not considered what might be missing  so I may well come back for second bite at this!

Cheers Jo

-----Original Message-----
From: Koha [mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Brendan Gallagher
Sent: Wednesday, 17 June 2015 9:33 a.m.
To: Mirko Tietgen
Cc: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
Subject: Re: [Koha] Koha Fundraising Committee Draft Terms of Reference

Great anyone have more thoughts?

BTW nothing has been done "behind the scenes"...  All discussions have been posted to the mailing lists and talked about and presented at conferences / hackfests.  Nothing has or will be hidden.  I just want to make sure that we're clear on that :)

Has anyone reviewed the document at all?  And there was no push to get the bylaws voted on at the last meeting because we fell short of a long enough review period (but since we had finished the doc we wanted to make sure it was available for some discussion at the general meeting)...  Not to vote on.

Mirko we need more volunteers - are you willing to help here?  You have good opinions.

Thanks,
Brendan



On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Mirko Tietgen <mirko at abunchofthings.net>
wrote:

> I don't know how to say this without stepping on anyone's toes, but I 
> think this discussion is taking a problematic direction. I don't think 
> it is good to tie the general discussion and decision on all things 
> fundraising to the personal situation of people that may be funded 
> once all is settled.
>
> I refuse to agree I »have put somebody in a difficult situation« 
> because I opposed voting on things that were made public on very short 
> notice before meetings. I was not informed I was discussing anyone's 
> situation. A situation I knew nothing about.
>
> It seems like behind the scenes it has already been agreed to
> 1) put money into the fund
> 2) pay somebody with that money
>
> so I have a simple proposal for the parties involved. Please consider 
> contracting people directly until the fundraising stuff is actually up 
> and running and everybody is happy.
>
> Hope that does not anger anyone,
>
> Mirko
>
> PS. Yes, I would like to see Jonathan continue his fine work on Koha. 
> Just to make that clear.
>
>
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>
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