Vicki is going to bring a few paper copies as well. Please read through the bylaws as they have been posted for quite some time found at: http://kudos.koha.org/?s=bylaws - The Mission and Section 5 membership are changing, but those are included in this email. ALA—Boston Public Library at 3 PM on Saturday, January 16. Proposed Agenda 1. Welcome 2. Introduction of officers 3. General information sharing (need to have time limit) 4. How we got here/history presentation 5. Report on minutes from today’s meeting 6. Present Bylaws (Mission statement, membership categories and dues structure) - should a vendor employee be allowed to be an officer of the organization? 7. Approval of bylaws - for you to read through - I am working to get the modification added 8. Status of 501 c3 filing with IRS 9. Discussion of membership services (what do they want?) 10. Virtual conference program suggestions 11. Future meetings · Mission: The purposes of the Corporation are educational, literary, and scientific, specifically: to promote the study, improvement and support of the Koha Integrated Library System for the benefit of North American libraries and to foster cooperation with the global Koha community. o Library/Consortia based on a single installation of Koha. Dues and number of votes will be based on number of bibliographic records, TBD (suggestion is to start at $5/50,000 bibs/1 vote and go up from there with a cap) Standard, voting membership:(sorry these may not line up right via the email.) Number of Biblios Annual cost Votes 1 - 49,999 $5 1 50,000 - 99,999 $10 2 100,000-149,999 $15 3 150,000-199,999 $20 4 200,000-249,999 $25 5 250,000-299,999 $30 6 300,000-349,999 $35 7 350,000-399,999 $40 8 400,000-449,999 $45 9 450,000-499,999 $50 10 500,000 - 549,999 $55 11 550,000 - 599,999 $60 12 600,000 - 649,999 $65 13 650,000 - 699,999 $70 14 700,000 - 749,999 $75 15 750,000 - 799,999 $80 16 800,000 - 849,999 $85 17 850,000 - 899,999 $90 18 900,000- $100 19 o Membership should be for installations of Koha in North America o Membership benefits: vote on administrative budget, vote to appoint members to board, vote to appoint members to development committee, annual meeting, newsletter and website access to shared member services o A non-voting membership will be available with access to same resources, but no voting rights. This will typically be for vendors supporting Koha. Dues will be based on the highest dues assigned a Library/Consortia member. Non-voting membership Member Type Annual cost Individual Developer $10 Small company (2-4 developers) $30 Large company (5+ developers) $50 David Schuster -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/KUDOS---ALA%E2%80%94Boston-Public-Library-at-3-PM-on-S... Sent from the Koha - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.