proposal to open the membership

Feb 10 19:25 UTC 2013

Proposal: Open the membership, to allow all users who can be validated
to be full members of Grex and for their votes to count in all elections.

Discussion: Dan Cross has suggested this in the agora conference.  My
intention is to propose what he has suggested.  If he suggests changes
to the wording of the proposal, I will almost surely them.

The justifications for requiring dues are that the corporation needed
the money to pay the bills, and that a financial contribution allowed
for verifying the identity of the member.  Those things are not issues
any more.  A few years ago, there was a proposal where the votes of
non-paying members were counted and meaningful (or was it an election).
 It worked okay as I recall.

response 2 of 43:

Feb 11 03:12 UTC 2013

I have not gone through the by-laws to list the ones that need to be
changed.  Is there a definitive current set of the by-laws?  If you
search the WWW page, you eventually can come to a set that refers to 7
Board members and membership fees of $60 per year.

Meanwhile, I hope it is okay to start the process with a general proposal.