SOAF Organisation
Not many of us have the time nor the willingness for a complex organisation, and after all we are all already paid up members of the SOA with its own conditions of membership which we adhere to.
Gregor is proposing the following simple structure:
An annual National Chairperson who will be responsible for maintaining www.soafrance.blogspot.com and chairing the annual meeting.
Regional chairpersons responsible for a) gathering data on Anglophone clubs, associations and bookshops within their region b) organising regional meetings, Paris being one of those regions. Volunteers are welcome.
A secretary for any SOAF meeting, be it regional, annual or Parisian who would volunteer at the beginning of any SOAF meeting to take notes for that one meeting and write a posting that the Chairperson can publish on our blog. (Ian notes: ‘On the occasion of the first meeting we didn't appoint a note take until two thirds of the way through our meeting so please forgive me if these early reports are a little sketchy - I rely on participants to fill in the gaps by making comments on this blog’.) WE DO NEED SOMEBODY TO VOLUNTEER AS SECRETARY OF SOAF. If you are interested do contact us through the comment section below this posting or email Gregor directly.
For ease of planning, our 'year' would start 01/01/07 and the regional and national chairs would be one year roles, voted on by the people attending the annual meeting. (For all intents and purposes our first meeting in October 06 was our 2006 annual meeting and although we didn't have an official vote, I think it was clear everyone was happy for Gregor to carry it forward in 2007. So for the sake of simplicity and in honor of Gregor's efforts to get this venture off the ground, it is proposed that Gregor is the national chair for 2007.
At the annual meeting people could nominate themselves to be the chairpersons (regional or national) for the next year, and there would be a vote. There would be no constitution precluding the chairpersons being re-elected for another term, and no limit on the number of terms the chairs could be held by the same person.
Question: Do you have any comments on this as a way of organising SOAF?
Gregor is proposing the following simple structure:
An annual National Chairperson who will be responsible for maintaining www.soafrance.blogspot.com and chairing the annual meeting.
Regional chairpersons responsible for a) gathering data on Anglophone clubs, associations and bookshops within their region b) organising regional meetings, Paris being one of those regions. Volunteers are welcome.
A secretary for any SOAF meeting, be it regional, annual or Parisian who would volunteer at the beginning of any SOAF meeting to take notes for that one meeting and write a posting that the Chairperson can publish on our blog. (Ian notes: ‘On the occasion of the first meeting we didn't appoint a note take until two thirds of the way through our meeting so please forgive me if these early reports are a little sketchy - I rely on participants to fill in the gaps by making comments on this blog’.) WE DO NEED SOMEBODY TO VOLUNTEER AS SECRETARY OF SOAF. If you are interested do contact us through the comment section below this posting or email Gregor directly.
For ease of planning, our 'year' would start 01/01/07 and the regional and national chairs would be one year roles, voted on by the people attending the annual meeting. (For all intents and purposes our first meeting in October 06 was our 2006 annual meeting and although we didn't have an official vote, I think it was clear everyone was happy for Gregor to carry it forward in 2007. So for the sake of simplicity and in honor of Gregor's efforts to get this venture off the ground, it is proposed that Gregor is the national chair for 2007.
At the annual meeting people could nominate themselves to be the chairpersons (regional or national) for the next year, and there would be a vote. There would be no constitution precluding the chairpersons being re-elected for another term, and no limit on the number of terms the chairs could be held by the same person.
Question: Do you have any comments on this as a way of organising SOAF?
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