Following my earlier e-mail, full details of the proposed changes to the Byelaws are now available at <http://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/2014/05/21/proposed-change-to-byelaws/>, and the relevant sections are reproduced below for your reference. As mentioned, any comments on the wording of the Byelaws should be received before the next meeting of the Board on 2 June 2014 by 3pm GMT.

Even if we do retain the wiki, the opinion of the Board is that the Byelaws should still change, as we think it is not best practice to codify any single technology into a governance document like this. For that reason I'm hoping to keep the discussion of the Byelaws separate from that of the infrastructure, if that's possible, so I'll reply to the infrastructure thread shortly.

1 Preamble

The name of this organisation is ‘Digital Medievalist’ (hereafter abbreviated ‘DM’).
The primary purpose of DM is to be an international community of practice supporting ‘digital medievalism’, which is understood to be an interest in the creation, use of, or research using digital objects relating to the Middle Ages.
DM will have other purposes and objectives as decided by the DM Board. These include:
1. To provide an online mailing list (dm-l) as a forum for members of DM to discuss digital medievalism.
2. To publish a free online open-access peer-reviewed journal entitled ‘Digital Medievalist’ as a high quality publication of work of interest to digital medievalists.
3. To host ~~a wiki to record information~~ online information resources of use to digital medievalists.

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3 DM Board

3.1 Organization and Responsibilities

DM will be governed by a Board elected by its membership. [See also now Election Procedures, which provide guidance on this but which are not part of the Byelaws.]
The DM Board shall elect a Director annually from its ranks (see below), and appoint subcommittees and officers as necessary for the efficient running of the project.
1. Under normal circumstances, these subcommittees and officers should include:
  1. A moderator/moderators for the dm-l listserv.
  2. An editorial committee responsible for the production of the DM journal.
  3. An editor or editors responsible for overseeing the operation of the ~~DM wiki~~online information resources of use to digital medievalists.
  4. An organiser/organisers for planning conference and poster sessions.

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3.3 Eligibility

In order to stand for election, candidates for the DM board must fulfil two conditions:
1. They must be members of DM.
2. They must have made a demonstrable contribution to the project or the field within the previous year. Such contributions might include:
  1. Non-trivial editing or page creation for the ~~DM wiki~~ online information resources.
  2. Inclusion in a sanctioned DM event (such as presenting in a conference session sponsored by DM).
  3. Publishing of an article in the DM Journal.
  4. Equivalent contributions (to be considered at the time of candidacy).

7 Wiki Information Resources

There shall be ~~a wiki~~ online information resources hosted by DM in order to act as a repository of information collected and edited by the membership. These may be implemented in the form of a wiki, blog, or other technology as deemed appropriate by the Board.
The Director will appoint administrators for the ~~wiki~~ information resources as and when they are needed.
Anyone wishing to provide useful contributions to the ~~wiki~~ information resources will be allowed to.
Disputes concerning ~~edits of the wiki~~ content will be settled by the ~~wiki~~ administrators of the resources and by appeal if necessary to the DM Board, whose decision will be final.