[PSF-Community] Sponsor Members - Bylaws Revision

[Stephan Deibel]

Matthew Dixon Cowles wrote:
> Ewa,
>
>> >  I will work on making it more obvious in the future. That is all we
>> >  can do
>
> I'm sorry but it's not completely clear to me what you mean by "all
> we can do". Taken literally, that seems to mean that board
> resolutions can't be changed. But that doesn't seem likely to be the
> case. Do you mean, all that you are personally willing to do? All
> that the board is willing to do? Something else?

I personally feel it was more than enough for the board to ask all the 
existing sponsor members if they care and finding out that indeed they 
did not.  I'm very glad the board finally went ahead and made this 
change, which should have been made long ago.  It makes no sense to ask 
200+ people to vote every time there's a potential sponsor for an 
organization like this.  That's a revenue source and shouldn't even be 
board business, but just routine staff work.  It also makes no sense to 
try to drag disinterested sponsors into a voting role.  As long as 
sponsors are made to pay before they are listed, and it's clear that 
sponsoring gives them no special rights, then I really don't see a problem.

Anyway, I felt I should speak up as member in support of what the board 
did, and how it did it.

- Stephan