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Re: Individual Membership enrollment now open
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org
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Date:
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Mon, 16 Jun 2003 15:42:37 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Steven House wrote:
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Dear Mr President,
May I ask the follwing questions concerning the constitution of ILTCO?
1. You have a huge lot of Bylaws, Policies and Procedures and TOS to get
through during the joining procedure for a club who aims not to be
bureaucratic.You have much experience of setting up such clubs and societies,
in your knowledge have any of these legal devices ever been tested in a
court? For an “international” club isn’t the application of Indiana State Law
a bit restrictive? How does this affect the legal rights of members outside
the USA?
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Though I am not president of the ILTCO, I was a part of the group that formed
the ILTCO constitution, so I will presume to try and respond to your questions.
We tried to make everything about the ILTCO as simple as we could. When you
start actually getting into the nuts and bolts of scenarios and such, things
tend to get more complicated. But we always left room for anything to be
corrected if need be or changed by the group. These types of questions would be
great ones to be raised in the ILTCO itself.
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2. Your aims as stated are very laudable, but make no mention of
“internationalising”, or of bringing a world-wide community of L-Gauge model
railway enthusiasts together. Should the ILTCO be pro-active in reaching out
to those areas of the world where no LTCs currently exist and/or trying to
bring those LTCs which currently keep themselves to themselves into the ILTCO
fold?
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I am not sure what “internationalising” actually means, but this is what we
envisioned: to create an organization that would be open for all people and
clubs around the world to join and fellowship in. But we do have our
limitations. For example, all discussions and such will be in the English
language. And although we will be providing resources (primarily advice) for
individuals and groups who wish to form LTCs, we will not be actively seeking
members for membership sake. Membership will have its privileges-- if people
want to take part in that, then they are welcome.
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3. Your constitution (seems to) makes no provision for ensuring that no
particular grouping of individuals can take control of ILTCO. You may
consider that (a) restricting officers to one per LTC or (b) one per country
and ensuring that an officer cannot be succeeded by a member from the same
LTC will go someway to preventing this.
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Again, a great question to raise in the ILTCO.
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I hope you don’t take exception to my posing these questions here.
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Not at all, although I think that these types of questions can best be addressed
within the ILTCO itself where there is opportunity to actually address them.
JOHN
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