<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div>On Wed, 2021-03-24 at 20:06 +0100, Marc Balmer wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>Paul,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">can you please explain to me which article of the <a href="http://X.Org" class="">X.Org</a> bylaws allows the board of directors to take such action without prior voting by the <a href="http://X.Org" class="">X.Org</a> members? I am not enciting that it is wrongful, I just did not find it in the bylaws.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>JFYI - I think you have a misunderstanding on how by-laws work; something that isn't mentioned in by-laws does not mean that something is disallowed. It's the other way around, so you've kind of answered your own question there.</div><div><br></div><div>Either way, there are explicit by-laws that actually do explicitly enable these actions: see Article 4 sections ii and iii (also, section i makes a vague mention of this). There's also no actual situations described in the by-laws that require member votes other then elections (of course), and I don't think I've ever heard of a foundation which has all of it's members vote on any PR statements before they're made. </div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class="">Marc</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">Am 24.03.2021 um 17:56 schrieb Lyude Paul <<a href="mailto:lyude@redhat.com" class="">lyude@redhat.com</a>>:</div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div class=""><div class="">Hello. As many of you are already likely aware, yesterday Richard M. Stallman<br class="">rejoined the Board of Directors for the Free Software Foundation. This is an<br class="">incredibly disappointing decision, one which runs contrary to the values that<br class="">the <a href="http://X.org" class="">X.org</a> and <a href="http://freedesktop.org" class="">freedesktop.org</a> communities are built-upon.<br class=""><br class="">Richard M. Stallman, or RMS for short, has an infamously well documented history<br class="">of causing problems both for the FSF, it's associated projects, and open source<br class="">as a whole. On numerous occasions he's exhibited seriously inappropriate<br class="">behavior and views that are transphobic, ableist, and misogynist among many<br class="">other things that are wholly unacceptable and which have no place in the open<br class="">source community. In doing so he's set a dangerous and irresponsible precedence<br class="">for the open source community that has tarnished its reputation for ages.<br class=""><br class="">As well, the board for the Free Software Foundation must also be held<br class="">accountable for his actions and presence back on the board. While RMS himself is<br class="">a huge problem, he would not be able to hold a place on the FSF BoD without the<br class="">board being complacent with his behavior and allowing him to return. This is<br class="">also part of a long recurring pattern with the FSF board encouraging RMS's<br class="">behavior and refusing to hold him accountable. It is not enough for RMS to step<br class="">down again, the entire board of directors must step down.<br class=""><br class="">It is for these reasons that the <a href="http://X.org" class="">X.org</a> foundation's Board of Directors have<br class="">overwhelmingly voted to join in the call for the FSF's Board of Directors to<br class="">step down, and additionally for RMS to be removed from all leadership positions<br class="">including the GNU project. You can find our endorsement of this along with more<br class="">information here:<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://rms-open-letter.github.io/" class="">https://rms-open-letter.github.io/</a><br class=""><br class="">We encourage members of X.org, freedesktop.org, and the open source community as<br class="">a whole to endorse this letter and boycott involvement with the FSF and<br class="">associated projects.<br class=""><br class="">Sincerely,<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Lyude Paul - X.org board member and Secretary<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>On behalf of the X.org foundation<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><span><pre>-- <br></pre><div data-evo-paragraph="" class="" style="width: 80ch;" data-evo-signature-plain-text-mode="">Sincerely,</div><div class="-x-evo-indented" style="margin-left: 3ch; word-wrap: normal; width: 77ch;"><div class="-x-evo-indented" style="margin-left: 3ch; word-wrap: normal; width: 74ch;"><div data-evo-paragraph="" class="">Lyude Paul (she/her)</div><div data-evo-paragraph="" class="">Software Engineer at Red Hat</div><div data-evo-paragraph="" class=""><br></div></div></div><div data-evo-paragraph="" class="" style="width: 80ch;">Note: I deal with a lot of emails and have a lot of bugs on my plate. If you've asked me a question, are waiting for a review/merge on a patch, etc. and I haven't responded in a while, please feel free to send me another email to check on my status. I don't bite!</div></span></div></body></html>