[Fsfe-uk] Re: AFFS

[Rich Walker]

Alex Hudson <address@hidden> writes:

> Rich Walker wrote:
>> Does anyone still have the ability to post to the announce mailing list?
>> Might be a useful way to flush out some of the membership?
>>
>
> There wasn't ever really an announce list :)
>
> We can decrypt the member's database, which I suspect is as complete a list 
> as we will have: the
> only members missing from that are some of those who did not renew early on 
> (although most who did
> not renew are still in that list).
>
> It would be easy enough to send out a mail to those who had been involved in 
> AFFS at any point based
> on that information, sans those original ex-members who I doubt we have 
> records for now.

I suspect that there are two groups that need to be distinguished:

* those who are currently members on the grounds that they have been
  paying subscriptions for several years

* those who would be members if there was an organisation to process
  subscriptions

and from what I understand of John's points, the duty of care (and hence
also the need to attend a meeting of the members) is to those in the
first group.

John, on the grounds that you've been analysing the constitution and
know the issues around membership organisations, would it be sufficient
to
(a) notify the membership database as Alex describes it of the intent to
    hold a meeting of members
(b) put something on the website saying the same thing

or would it also be necessary to reconcile the bank statements against
the database, work out who was not in the database, and attempt to
contact them too?

cheers, Rich.

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