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Francis Tyers: moved By-laws to Bylaws

2011-02-07T20:53:52Z

moved By-laws to Bylaws

Mlforcada at 13:10, 29 April 2010

2010-04-29T13:10:20Z

Mlforcada at 13:10, 29 April 2010

2010-04-29T13:10:02Z

Mlforcada at 13:08, 29 April 2010

2010-04-29T13:08:50Z

Mlforcada at 13:08, 29 April 2010

2010-04-29T13:08:12Z

Mlforcada at 13:03, 29 April 2010

2010-04-29T13:03:40Z

136.206.1.17 at 13:00, 29 April 2010

2010-04-29T13:00:16Z

136.206.1.17 at 12:58, 29 April 2010

2010-04-29T12:58:36Z

136.206.1.17 at 12:55, 29 April 2010

2010-04-29T12:55:25Z

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 <li>The official Apertium code repository at the time of adopting these bylaws was hosted in SourceForge</li>
 </ol>
+[[Category:Governance]]

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-<style>
-li:before {content="***"}
-</style>
 == Mission ==
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 == Transitional provisions ==
 <ol start="24">

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+<style>
+li:before {content="***"}
+</style>
 == Mission ==

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 === Project Management Committee ===
-<ol start="15">
+<ol start="16">
 <li>The Project Management Committee is formed by seven members of the Assembly designated by it to make the day to day decisions.</li>
 <li>The Project Management Committee is headed by a President and has six more members, one of whom will act as Secretary, and another one as Treasurer</li>
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 == Election of the Project Management Committee ==
-<ol start="22">
+<ol start="23">
 <li>The Assembly of Committers will elect a new Project Management Committee as follows:
 <ol style="list-style-type:lower-alpha" >
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-<ol start="23">
+<ol start="24">
 <li>As soon as these by-laws are approved by the Assembly of Committers, a new Project Management Committee will be elected</li>
 <li>The initial Assembly of Committers consists of everyone having commit access to the official Apertium code repository at the time that these by-laws are adopted</li>

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-= Apertium By-Laws =
 == Mission ==
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 === Project Management Committee ===
-<ol start="15"></li>
+<ol start="15">
 <li>The Project Management Committee is formed by seven members of the Assembly designated by it to make the day to day decisions.</li>
 <li>The Project Management Committee is headed by a President and has six more members, one of whom will act as Secretary, and another one as Treasurer</li>
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 == Election of the Project Management Committee ==
+<ol start="22">
-# The Assembly of Committers will elect a new Project Management Committee as follows:
+<li>The Assembly of Committers will elect a new Project Management Committee as follows:
-## An Election Board of 3 committers (with one substitute each) will run the election.
+<ol style="list-style-type:lower-alpha" >
-## The Project Management Committee will provide the Election Board with all the information needed to run the election
+<li>An Election Board of 3 committers (with one substitute each) will run the election.</li>
-## Any Committer may run for member of the Project Management Committee
+<li>The Project Management Committee will provide the Election Board with all the information needed to run the election</li>
-## Any Committer may run for president of the Project Management Committee
+<li>Any Committer may run for member of the Project Management Committee</li>
-## Candidates cannot be part of the Election Board
+<li>Any Committer may run for president of the Project Management Committee</li>
-## When an election is called, the Election Board will publish a temporary census of Committers with right to vote will be published.
+<li>Candidates cannot be part of the Election Board</li>
-## After 7 days to amend the census, a definitive census of Committers with right to vote will be published by the Election Board
+<li>When an election is called, the Election Board will publish a temporary census of Committers with right to vote will be published.</li>
-## There will be 7 days for candidates to member and president to come forward
+<li>After 7 days to amend the census, a definitive census of Committers with right to vote will be published by the Election Board</li>
-## The Election Board will proclaim the candidates to President and to Members of the Project Management Committee
+<li>There will be 7 days for candidates to member and president to come forward</li>
-## Once candidates are proclaimed, Committers with the right to vote will send a ballot with:
-### The name of a candidate to president of the Project Management Committee, and
+<li>The Election Board will proclaim the candidates to President and to Members of the Project Management Committee</li>
+<li>Once candidates are proclaimed, Committers with the right to vote will send a ballot with:
-### The name of up to four candidates to members of the Project Management Committee
+<ol style="list-style-type:lower-roman" >
-## There will be 7 days to send the ballots
+<li>The name of a candidate to president of the Project Management Committee, and</li>
-## The Election Board will proclaim as President the candidate to president having received most votes and as members the six candidates to member having received the most votes
+<li>The name of up to four candidates to members of the Project Management Committee</li>
-## The new Project Management Committee will start to function a week after being proclaimed
+</ol></li>
+<li>There will be 7 days to send the ballots</li>
+<li>The Election Board will proclaim as President the candidate to president having received most votes and as members the six candidates to member having received the most votes</li>
+<li>The new Project Management Committee will start to function a week after being proclaimed</li>
+</li>
+</ol></li>
+</ol>
 == Transitional provisions ==
-# As soon as these by-laws are approved by the Assembly of Committers, a new Project Management Committee will be elected
+<ol start="23">
-# The initial Assembly of Committers consists of everyone having commit access to the official Apertium code repository at the time that these by-laws are adopted
+<li>As soon as these by-laws are approved by the Assembly of Committers, a new Project Management Committee will be elected</li>
-# The official Apertium code repository at the time of adopting these bylaws was hosted in SourceForge
+<li>The initial Assembly of Committers consists of everyone having commit access to the official Apertium code repository at the time that these by-laws are adopted</li>
+<li>The official Apertium code repository at the time of adopting these bylaws was hosted in SourceForge</li>
+</ol>

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 === The assembly of committers ===
-<ol start="2">
+<ol start="5">
 <li>The project's Committers are responsible for the project's technical management. Committers are developers who have write access to the project's source repositories. Committers may cast binding votes on any technical discussion regarding the project.</li>
 <li>The commiters of Apertium constitute the Assembly of Committers of Apertium</li>
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 === Project Management Committee ===
+<ol start="15"></li>
-# The Project Management Committee is formed by seven members of the Assembly designated by it to make the day to day decisions.
-# The Project Management Committee is headed by a President and has six more members, one of whom will act as Secretary, and another one as Treasurer
+<li>The Project Management Committee is formed by seven members of the Assembly designated by it to make the day to day decisions.</li>
+<li>The Project Management Committee is headed by a President and has six more members, one of whom will act as Secretary, and another one as Treasurer</li>
-# The responsibilities of the Project Management Committee include
+<li>The responsibilities of the Project Management Committee include</li>
-## Deciding what is distributed as products of Apertium project. In particular, all releases must be approved by the PMC.
+<ol style="list-style-type:lower-alpha" >
-## Maintaining the project's shared resources, including the codebase repository, mailing lists, websites.
+<li>Deciding what is distributed as products of Apertium project. In particular, all releases must be approved by the PMC.</li>
-## Speaking on behalf of the project; although, the PMC could exceptionally give the right to speak on behalf of Apertium to a member of the Assembly of Commiters.
+<li>Maintaining the project's shared resources, including the codebase repository, mailing lists, websites.</li>
-## Resolving licence disputes regarding products of the project.
+<li>Speaking on behalf of the project; although, the PMC could exceptionally give the right to speak on behalf of Apertium to a member of the Assembly of Committers.</li>
-## Giving access rights to new Committers.
-## Maintaining these bylaws and other guidelines of the project.
+<li>Resolving licence disputes regarding products of the project.</li>
+<li>Giving access rights to new Committers.</li>
-## Promoting the active engagement of Apertium in larger free/open-source initiatives
+<li>Maintaining these bylaws and other guidelines of the project.</li>
-## Attracting external funds to further the objectives of the Apertium project
+<li>Promoting the active engagement of Apertium in larger free/open-source initiatives</li>
-## Deciding how to distribute the funds the Apertium project may get as the result of participating in externally-funded initiatives
+<li>Attracting external funds to further the objectives of the Apertium project</li>
-# The Project Management Committee votes on all of its decisions. The President has the casting vote.
+<li>Deciding how to distribute the funds the Apertium project may get as the result of participating in externally-funded initiatives</li>
-# The Project Management Committee has the obligation to submit to the Assembly of Committers the decisions that affect the work of the half or more of the members of the Assembly of Committers, being able to consult in other subjects if like this believed it necessary.
+</ol></li>
-# Decisions of the Project Management Committee made other than in consultation with the Assembly are filed in a diary and are periodically presented to the Assembly of Committers, which approves them or rejects them. The period between cannot be longer than three months.
-# The secretary of the Project Management Committee has the obligation of preparing the diary and presenting it to the Assembly of Committers.
+<li>The Project Management Committee votes on all of its decisions. The President has the casting vote.</li>
+<li>The Project Management Committee has the obligation to submit to the Assembly of Committers the decisions that affect the work of the half or more of the members of the Assembly of Committers, being able to consult in other subjects if like this believed it necessary. </li>
+<li>Decisions of the Project Management Committee made other than in consultation with the Assembly are filed in a diary and are periodically presented to the Assembly of Committers, which approves them or rejects them. The period between cannot be longer than three months. </li>
+<li>The secretary of the Project Management Committee has the obligation of preparing the diary and presenting it to the Assembly of Committers.</li>
+</ol>
 == Election of the Project Management Committee ==

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 <li>The most important participants in the project are people who use Apertium. The majority of our developers start out as users and guide their development efforts from the user's perspective</li>
 <li>Users contribute to the Apertium project by providing feedback to developers in the form of bug reports and feature suggestions. As well, users participate in the Apertium community by helping other users.</li>
+</ol>
 === Developers ===
+<ol start="4">
 <li>Developers are  volunteers who are contributing time, code, documentation, or resources to Apertium. A developer that makes sustained, welcomed contributions to the project may be invited to become a committer, though the exact timing of such invitations depends on many factors</li>
 </ol>
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 === The assembly of committers ===
+<ol start="2">
-# The project's Committers are responsible for the project's technical management. Committers are developers who have write access to the project's source repositories. Committers may cast binding votes on any technical discussion regarding the project.
+<li>The project's Committers are responsible for the project's technical management. Committers are developers who have write access to the project's source repositories. Committers may cast binding votes on any technical discussion regarding the project.</li>
-# The commiters of Apertium constitute the Assembly of Committers of Apertium
-# The Assembly of Committers of Apertium is the deciding body of the Apertium project
+<li>The commiters of Apertium constitute the Assembly of Committers of Apertium</li>
-# The Assembly of Committers elects the Project Management Committee of Apertium every two years or whenever a vacancy occurs
+<li>The Assembly of Committers of Apertium is the deciding body of the Apertium project</li>
-# One tenth of the Assembly of Commiters may propose a motion of censure to overturn the Project Management Committee, which has to be approved by half plus one of the members of the Assembly of Committers
+<li>The Assembly of Committers elects the Project Management Committee of Apertium every two years or whenever a vacancy occurs</li>
+<li>One tenth of the Assembly of Commiters may propose a motion of censure to overturn the Project Management Committee, which has to be approved by half plus one of the members of the Assembly of Committers</li>
-# The number of members of the Assembly of Committers of Apertium does not have any limit.
+<li>The number of members of the Assembly of Committers of Apertium does not have any limit. </li>
-# Committer access is received by committing code and getting sponsorship by two existing Committers, a nominator and a seconder. Upon fulfillment of these conditions, a PMC member will give write access.
+<li>Committer access is received by committing code and getting sponsorship by two existing Committers, a nominator and a seconder. Upon fulfillment of these conditions, a PMC member will give write access.</li>
-# A Committer is considered emeritus by their own declaration or by not contributing in any form to the project for over six months. An emeritus committer may request reinstatement of commit access from the PMC.
+<li>A Committer is considered emeritus by their own declaration or by not contributing in any form to the project for over six months. An emeritus committer may request reinstatement of commit access from the PMC.</li>
-# The president and the secretary of the Project Management Committee will also act as President and Secretary of the assembly of committers
+<li>The president and the secretary of the Project Management Committee will also act as President and Secretary of the assembly of committers</li>
-# The Assembly of Committers decides only on subjects proposed by the Project Management Committee
+<li>The Assembly of Committers decides only on subjects proposed by the Project Management Committee</li>
-# Once submitted to it, the decisions of the Assembly of Committers are executive
+<li>Once submitted to it, the decisions of the Assembly of Committers are executive</li>
+</ol>
 === Project Management Committee ===