[Fsfe-uk] Membership, Executive membership and a suggestion

[Jason Clifford]

Having read through some, but not all, of the posts here in recent days
and having just read through the constitution of AFFS I'd like to ask
whether any members actually had their membership terminated by the
Executive or not following the apparent break down in the operation of
AFFS?

My reading of the constitution leaves me with the understanding that
unless members have actually resigned their membership or had it
terminated by the executive they may still be members, albeit members
who owe AFFS membership subscription money.

Further to this the constitution states that members of the Executive
may only serve for a maximum of 4 continuous years. As there have been
no elections for more than 4 years - the 2005 AGM didn't happen due to a
lack of a quorum - it may well be that for AFFS to exist now requires
that the membership and Executive choose to accept as true the fiction
that the intervening time has simply not happened - otherwise there
seems to be no valid means of even calling an AGM to try and resolve the
status of AFFS at all.

I'd like to suggest that we do exactly that. We simply reboot AFFS upon
the basis that it is as it existed at or after 15th Aug 2005, excepting
those members who actually did resign their membership.

This would allow for there to be a meeting at which it can be decided
whether or not AFFS should continue to exist at all and how to move
forward from that decision.

I know this is a contentious suggestion however it strikes me that no
possible way forward exists that complies with the constitution and
allows the membership to have a real say in the matter.

Jason Clifford