19-05-2016, 07:38 PM
I've not really followed chess politics much so I'm really just trying to understand exactly what constitution changes mean. I've pretty much assumed that minor grammatical corrections etc means no real change. Would I be correct to summarise the proposed alterations as follows:
1. Constitution Point 7 and structure link(<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.chessscotland.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Structure.jpg">http://www.chessscotland.com/news/wp-co ... ucture.jpg</a><!-- m -->) basically describe make up of organisation with red jobs requiring specific skills and being directly appointed, blue ones being ones elected at AGM and green ones are other council members (unsure exactly what or how they're appointed).
2. Constitution Point 8 is basically Chess Scotland's objectives and doing necessary actions in an emergency. At work they've been advertising that it's Business Continuity Week (16-20 May) that I assume is pretty much in line with objectives of it. Constitution Point 9 seems to be along similar lines.
3. We now have PVG and FIDE guidelines. Don't know if we had any before but it seems sensible to have them.
That from what I understand the above are the main changes. Discussions about proxy votes (probably a good analogy is postal votes at general elections) doesn't seem that relevant to me and if online voting is available (an excellent idea!) then issue will become obsolete as proxy votes would be done online.
Have I pretty much summarised the changes correctly or have I missed anything or got it wrong?
1. Constitution Point 7 and structure link(<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.chessscotland.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Structure.jpg">http://www.chessscotland.com/news/wp-co ... ucture.jpg</a><!-- m -->) basically describe make up of organisation with red jobs requiring specific skills and being directly appointed, blue ones being ones elected at AGM and green ones are other council members (unsure exactly what or how they're appointed).
2. Constitution Point 8 is basically Chess Scotland's objectives and doing necessary actions in an emergency. At work they've been advertising that it's Business Continuity Week (16-20 May) that I assume is pretty much in line with objectives of it. Constitution Point 9 seems to be along similar lines.
3. We now have PVG and FIDE guidelines. Don't know if we had any before but it seems sensible to have them.
That from what I understand the above are the main changes. Discussions about proxy votes (probably a good analogy is postal votes at general elections) doesn't seem that relevant to me and if online voting is available (an excellent idea!) then issue will become obsolete as proxy votes would be done online.
Have I pretty much summarised the changes correctly or have I missed anything or got it wrong?