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IGLU
Ladies, Gents and that newbie from Alpha Xi Ceti who registered
yesterday,
I'm please to announce the *official* forming of IGLU - the Israeli
Group of Linux Users. This organization is a not for profit organization
that will be registered with Rasham ha Amutut in a few days.
Anyone interested to join the Amuta must:
1. Send me his name, email, phone number and ID.
2. Be prepared to pay the member fees, when and if it will be so decided
(I'm thinking either 20 NIS a month OR performing some sort of service
for the Amuta - so that money won't stop people from joining, what do
you think?)
Joining the Amuta will give you a voting right on Amuta official
meetings.
The Amuta will have at least one such meeting per year.
5 members of the Amuta will form the IGLU Cabal - the managing board of
the Amuta. They will be the persons in charge of day to day matters
between Amuta official meetings. This Cabal will be chosen once a year
in Amuta official meetings. Until the first meeting the Cabal will be
made from Ira, Chen, Eli Marmor and YBA, if they choose to join,
otherwise will make something up. The Amuta will appoint from time to
time additional officer to take care of specific business. I'll guess
I'll shove my snout into things too ;-)
The target of the Amuta will be to form a legal body that will be able
to back up and represent the actions of the free software / open source
/ linux community in Israel. Despite the name, I think we should cover
all free software/ OSS, including things like Qmail and BSDs.
The Amuta will try to push forward the use and development of Linux and
other free software in Israel. The Amuta will try to demonstrate the
benefits of using free software and linux and present it as a possible
solution to the growing problem of technological gap in Israel between
the "Have" and "Have-nots".
The Amuta will try its best to assist all the community activity, both
present and future, but it should be understood that the Amuta does NOT
come to replace any activity organizers but only to help them by
providing an "official" legal body that they can use as a cover for
their activities (donations, dealing with vendors etc.) as long as those
activities are lawful and in the charter of the Amuta.
The Amuta will do it's best to let anyone and everyone enjoy the
activities it sponsors, without regard to sex, race, creed or editor
preference ;-) including people with disabilities.
OK, now it's your turn.
Also, if anyone knows an accountant that is willing to do us a favor and
take care of the money side of
business pro bono it'll be great. We already have a lawyer.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE follow up this email on iglu@egroups.com mailing
list only and not on Linux-il. thanks.
--
Gilad Ben-Yossef <gby@kagoor.com>
http://kagoor.com | +972(9)9565333 x230 | +972(54)756701
"I've been seduced by the chocolate side of the force."
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