1. AGM 2005

The 2005 Debian-UK Society AGM will be held at the Annual Barbecue, 28th August 2005 - see DebianParty2005 for location and other details.

2. Agenda

• Treasurer's report
• Motions
• Elections for committee posts

Nominations for posts and motions to be debated must be sent to the Secretary (Vince Sanders, vince@kyllikki.org) two weeks in advance, i.e. by Sunday 14th August 2005, as described in the ["DebianUKSocietyConstitution"].

3. The constitution

1. This document details the constitution of the society hereinafter referred to as 'Debian-UK' or 'the society'.

2. Membership of the society is defined as being the set of registered Debian Developers, recognised by the Debian Project and published on http://db.debian.org/, who are resident in the UK and who have not opted out of membership of the society.

3. Membership is automatic and no subscription payments will be due.
4. Any member may opt out of the society at will.
5. The purpose of the society is to promote Debian and Free Software in general.
6. The Debian-UK Committee will consist of three roles.
7. The three committee roles are: Chair, Secretary and Treasurer
8. Anyone in the committee or any three other Debian-UK members may call an extraordinary general meeting at two weeks notice.
9. Meetings may occur physically or on the IRC channel #debian-uk on irc.oftc.net
10. A meeting is defined as quorate if six members of Debian-UK (or the entire membership should it be below six) are present.
11. The committee will be nominated and voted upon at the AGM.
12. Should society membership drop below six members or should it not prove possible to elect a committee then an EGM will be called to attempt to elect a committee. If this second meeting fails to result in enough members or a society committee as required, funds will be defaulted to Software in the Public Interest earmarked for Debian.
13. Motions are carried by simple majority.
14. Should an EGM be called to dissolve the society a two-thirds majority is required containing at least one committee member.
15. Signatories on the Debian-UK bank account are defined to be the members of the committee and any delegates thereof.
16. Delegates of the committee must be nominated and seconded by members of the committee.
17. Nominations and motions should be sent to the Secretary two weeks in advance and to the general membership one week in advance of any given meeting.
18. Ballots are non secret and all vote results will be published.

4. Revision History