On 9/1/11, McTim <
dogwallah@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Where did these come from? (copy and pasted from somewhere else I imagine,
> as it would be a lot of work to write up new by-laws from scratch!)
>
> here are my nits picked:
>
> 1.ii
> "To represent the Kenyan Internet community in government committees and in
> other local and international forums that deal with the various
> technical, legal and social aspects of the Internet,"
>
> Are such bodies as ISOC allowed to sit on government committees? Or are we
> talking about things like the ICT Board and IPv6 forum??
>
>
> I would like Section 1. to say more about increasing Interent access in
> Kenya I think.
>
> When did we decide we would have dues paying members? I had thought that
> was an open issue?
>
> Section 7:
>
> "7. Any members of the Chapter may file charges against a member by filing a
> written complaint with the Secretary of the Chapter."
>
> WTF is this about? Is this needed? really?
>
>
> Article IV
>
> 2". Board membership shall be drawn from key sectors of the Kenyan
> Internet community, primarily sponsoring organizations:
>
>
> Government (1)
>
> Private Sector (2)
>
> Academia (1)
>
> Civil Society (1)
>
> Members-at-large (2)"
>
>
> I'm not so keen on divvying up seats like this. What if we can't find a
> good person from gov't to sit on the Board? Will we be then forced to have
> a clueless person on the Board just to satisfy the By-laws?
>
> Same with the other stakeholder groups I think.
>
>
> In general I think we will have problems due to the gender parity rules.
>
>
> If there are 7 board Members, and 1/3 must be women, then that means at
> least 3 women. If there are 4 officer seats, and a 1/3 must be women, then
> that means 2 women at all times must be Officers.
>
> What if we have problems recruiting that many women willing to serve?
>
> Article XII 1:
>
> "All proposed changes to these Chapter Bylaws shall have been approved by
> the Senior Manager, Chapters and individual Memberships"
>
> Who is the "Senior Manager" ?
>
> In general I find it to be a very formal document, suggesting physical
> offices, Standing committees, etc. Will we be able to sustain such an
> operation?
>
> What will our source(s) of funding come from?
>
> For a first draft tho, it's not bad!
>
> Regards,
>
> McTim
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Barrack Otieno
> <
otieno.barrack@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Listers,
>>
>> Kindly go through the attached document prepared by one of us, let us
>> comment on the same before the next meeting.
>>
>> --
>> Barrack O. Otieno
>> Afriregister Ltd (Kenya)