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Constitution for the JOS Organization, JOS Collective, JOS Project, or other name to be decided later, referred to in the remainder of this document as JOS*
1.2 "member" refers to a member of "JOS*"
1.3 All times and dates referred to in this constitution are in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
1.4 "JOS Project primary mailing list" refers to the project mailing list to which all members are required to be subscribed to.
2.1 Create an open source, free, extensible operating system.
2.1.2 Open Source means that the source code will be published so that anyone can read and understand the operating system by studying the source code.
2.1.3 Free means that the operating system will be made available to end users for use free of charge.
2.1.4 Extensible means that components in the operating system will be replaceable.
2.2 "JOS*" shall use collaboration, as opposed to authoritarian methods, as the basis for all operations except as needed for organizational details, including, but not limited to, design and coding issues.
2.3 To allow anyone to work on any project that they so wish. Competing implementations of the same functionality are allowed, and even desirable. The best design will be chosen by natural selection. Priority should be given to implementations featuring clearly documented, highly interoperable interfaces.
3.1 The name of this organization shall be the JOS Organization, JOS Collective, JOS Project, or other name to be decided later, referred to generically as "JOS*".
3.2 Membership of "JOS*" shall be free of charge and open to all. Access to the Internet and ability to use common Internet tools will be required for a member to actively participate.
3.3 A voting member is defined to be someone who is registered on the primary JOS* mailing list. The procedure for becoming registered is detailed in the policy book under 2.2 of ARTICLE II General Provisions.
3.4 The JOS* Primary Mailing List is that mailing list which the JOS* voting membership have agreed to be the mailing list where any and all voting activities are to be conducted. Exceptions to this definition are outlined in "Article II General Provisions" of the JOS* project Policy Book.
3.5 All members agree to recognize the authority of this constitution in relation to "JOS*" business.
3.6 All members agree to abide by the policy book in relation to "JOS*" business. In case of any conflict between this constitution and the policy book, this constitution prevails in all cases.
3.7 The content of this constitution and the policy book may not be altered or amended in any way except as a result of a vote being passed in accordance with Article IV of this constitution.
4.1 At certain times it may be desirable for a vote to be called amongst members to make decisions on important issues.
4.2 Voting issues shall be classified as "ordinary" and "extraordinary". "Extraordinary" votes shall be reserved for changes to the Constitution. All other issues shall be decided by "ordinary" votes.
4.3 A vote may be called by any voting member. If a voting member wishes to call a vote then this shall be advertised for a minimum number of days prior to the start of the vote in the manner described in the policy book. The minimum number of days shall be 2 for "ordinary" votes and 4 for "extraordinary" votes. The advertisement shall specify one member who has agreed to second the vote and a member who has agreed to act as a neutral administrator of the vote. The advertisement shall also specify the proposed wording of the question to be asked in the vote.
4.4 As a result of a vote advertisement any member may object to the choice of a vote administrator at any time before the start of the vote. An objection should be made by contacting the proposer of the vote and informing them of the objection. In the event of an objection the vote proposer can either withdraw the vote, or select a new administrator. In the latter case, the proposer shall place a new vote advertisement in accordance with paragraph 4.3. In addition, the proposer of a vote may withdraw his proposal without prejudice at any time prior to the beginning of vote tabulation by the administrator. Once vote tabulation has begun, no withdrawal request shall be entertained, and any vote result shall be considered valid and binding, subject to the satisfaction of all other voting criteria.
4.5 It should be deemed a contravention of this constitution if any member abuses paragraph 4.4 with the intention of preventing a vote from taking place.
4.6 Voting shall take place over a minimum period. This period shall be 3 days for "ordinary" votes and 6 days for "extraordinary" votes. Each member has a single vote, although it is permissible for a member to change their minds about a vote within the voting period. Changes in votes shall be corroborated by the vote adminstrator in the manner prescribed in the policy book.
4.7 Voting shall be secret. At no time during the voting period shall preliminary results be advertised. The voting procedure is detailed in the policy book.
4.8 It is the responsibility of the vote administrator to make a reasonable attempt to advertise the results of the vote to the "JOS*" membership within 1 day of the closure of the vote. Details of what is termed "reasonable" are available within the policy book. No vote shall be binding until the results are successfully advertised.
4.9 A vote is declared void if less than three votes have been received by the end of the voting period.
4.10 Valid votes shall be one of the following: [a] Yes (approve the proposal as stated) [b] No (disapprove the proposal as stated) [c] Neither with explanation (disagree with the phrasing of the question or some other procedural matter) [d] Abstain (no preference either way)
4.11 "Total vote count" shall be defined as the total of "yes", "no", and "neither" ballots received. A proposal is considered to have been approved if 51 percent of the total votes was 'yes' for "ordinary" votes and 75% for "extraordinary" votes, other wise the proposal is said to have been rejected. A proposal is considered to have failed to pass without prejudice if neither "yes" nor "no" vote totals failed to reach the required percent for the type of vote being conducted.
4.12 Members voting "neither" have the option of including an explanation of their reasons for voting this way with their vote. These explanations will be advertised with members names removed after voting has finished in the manner described in the policy book.
4.13 All vote proposals shall be worded in such a way that the status quo is maintained should the proposal not be approved or fail to pass without prejudice as defined in Article 4.11 of this document.
Appendix A Revision History:
Date: 8-14-01 By: PhilipGonia
Added -- 1.4 defining the primary project mailing list.
Changes to [ARTICLE III General Provisions]
Modified -- 3.3 to reflect the change to the definition of a JOS* voting member.
Added -- 3.4 describing how the project primary mailing list is selected.
Renumbered -- 3.4 - 3.6 to reflect the addition of the new 3.4.
Changes to [ARTICLE IV Voting]
Modified -- 4.3 and 4.6 time periods for vote advertisments and voting. The sum of 5 days for ordinary votes and 10 for extraordinary.
Modified -- 4.9. removed the text related to quorum's.
Modified -- 4.11, new rules for determining the passage or failure of proposals. Removed all requirements for quorm's.
Date: 8-19-01 By: PhilipGonia
Changes to [ARTICLE III General Provisions]
Reworded -- article 3.4.
Was -- 3.4 As it is possible for a project as large as <nolonk>JOS* to have many mailing lists with each having some number of members subscribed but not having all members subscribed, the primary mailing list is that list (having been voted as the primary list), to which all members of all remaining mailing lists (wishing to be voting members) are to be a member of. Exceptions to this definition is outlined in "Article II General Provisions" of the JOS* project Policy Book.
Corrected -- the mispelling of Appendix in this sections title.
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