==== Amendment Option 1: ====

Abolishment of By-Laws which will be replaced by an informal team structure document.<<BR>>

-- [[LaunchpadHome:cprofitt]] <<DateTime(2010-05-14T22:41:41-0500)>>


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==== Amendment Option 2: ====

The current By-laws will be amended to read:

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==== Article 1: Team Leadership ====
section 1: The NY State Local Community team will have a primary contact and a secondary contact.
 * The lead contact will be responsible for distribution of the resources received from the Ubuntu community and Canonical
 * The lead contact shall be responsible for organizing the teams re-application for approved status
 * The lead contact shall be responsible for communicating the concerns of members to the greater Ubuntu community

section 2: The purpose of the secondary contact is in the case of the primary contact being out of contact for a period of three months. If the primary contact can not be reached the secondary contact will automatically be elevated to primary contact

section 3: 

==== Article 2: Central Team Meetings ====
section 1: The team shall meet monthly on IRC to facilitate the co-ordination of regional or state-wide events
 * The meeting time and date will be set by the lead contact in consultation with the membership
 * The team will meet in #ubuntu-us-ny on freenode.net

section 2: The team irc channel shall be available to any sub-team for on-line meetings.
 * The sub-group should post details of the meeting on the Ubuntu wiki meeting page so others are aware that they meeting is taking place


==== Article 3: Sub-Teams ====
section 1: The New York State Local Team acknowledges that New York State is a large geographic region containing several major cities and the needs of Ubuntu users would be best met by local groups organizing local events
 * Any person interesting in running a 'really' local team will be able to add their team information to a special page on teams Ubuntu wiki
 * Every attempt will be made to support the 'really' local teams with resources from the Ubuntu community and Canonical
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-- [[LaunchpadHome:cprofitt]] <<DateTime(2010-05-14T22:41:41-0500)>>

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