Dear Colleagues
Despite the troubled and politically unstable times, the digital medievalist board is discussing specific changes to its organization, and we need your feedback on this matter.
This mail is to inform you that the board is debating changes to the bylaws of our organization. As a subscriber to the dm-list, you are a member of digital medievalist, and we want to hear from you.
The motivation behind the changes to the bylaws are the following:
- We want to stress that digital medievalist is an inclusive and open learned society that holds itself to certain standards and academic rigor.
- For reasons of administration and organization, we propose to alter the terms of the executive board. From our point of view, it is too time-consuming to organize elections every year.
- The excellent subcommittee (formally called postgraduate committee) needs a written foundation; we, therefore, want to add specific bylaws for the committee.
As is laid out in our bylaws, we are obliged to give you a chance to comment on the proposed amendments (and frankly, we are very eager to get your feedback). Feel free to comment directly to the list or send one
of the board members a message (https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/executive-board/).
After this call for comments (open for ten days), the executive board will consider the feedback and propose new bylaws. All members of digital medievalist
will have a chance to vote on the new bylaws by the end of March/beginning of April (announced through the mailing list).
For your consideration, I attach two PDF documents with
a) a proposition for amendments to the digital medievalist bylaws [https://annuel2.framapad.org/p/digital-medievalist-by-laws-9suk]
b) a proposition for new bylaws for the subcommittee [https://annuel2.framapad.org/p/bylaws-for-post-graduate-committee-9suk]
Both propositions are also open for comments online (link to a framapad/open document)
I am very much looking forward to your feedback and send best wishes in the name of the executive board,