[NFBCS] Board Approval

Thu Mar 5 19:39:04 UTC 2020

Greetings, Peter,

The reason the National Board had to be part of the decision making process for the activity you had planned is because it would have been done at the National Convention. Naturally, they would need to control something that was going to be done directly under their auspices. Since we are between National Conventions, any action done in the name of NFBCS needs NFBCS Board approval because the full membership cannot vote as a whole, but it does not need to wait for a decision by the Board of the national organization. National will need to be made aware of our plans, and would want to review the static content of the NFBCS website before it is allowed to go live to make sure it does not contradict NFB policies and philosophy, but that would be done strictly in an advisory manner working with the developer of our site.

Take care,
   Ryan

Ryan Stevens, Parliamentarian
National Federation of the Blind of New Jersey

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Subject: [NFBCS] Board Approval

Hello everyone,

Appointed and board members are two different animals. It has been a long-standing policy of the federation that any actions an individual, local chapter, or division chooses to take must be approved by the national president, the chapter or division board of directors before projects such as setting up division websites can go forward. I know this from first-hand experience, and have been called out by none other than Dr. Maurer for wanting to conduct an activity at a past national convention without his approval. This is right in the organization's constitution. All of the ideas we've discussed here are great but we need to be sure the division board of directors approves of them.
Peter Donahue

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Subject: Re: [NFBCS] Division Website

And as an appointed member, do you have a problem with it?

On 3/4/2020 9:04 PM, Bryan Duarte wrote:
> I am an appointed member of this division.
>
> Bryan Duarte
>
> PhD Computer Science Research student
> IGERT Fellow, CUbiC Lab, Arizona State University
>
>> On Mar 4, 2020, at 6:55 PM, Kevin via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>
>> I highly doubt the board would have a problem.
>>
>>
>>> On 3/4/2020 8:31 PM, Peter Donahue via NFBCS wrote:
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>>     Did you have permission from the division board to do this?
>>>
>>> Peter Donahue
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>> Subject: Re: [NFBCS] Division Website
>>>
>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>> I wanted to share this link. I created a Slack workspace for the NFB CS division. I do not think it should take away from this mailing list at all but it would be a great way to collaborate and brainstorm on projects such as the website/wiki.
>>>
>>> https://join.slack.com/t/nfbcomputersc-kuf4276/shared_invite/enQtOTY5ODA4Njk0MzU0LTM3ZDhkODQ5NzBiMjQ2NzE0MDlkMTkyMWFiNDk4MmNjMTQ5OGYxNTgwYjUxNDdiNzNkYWI4ZDIzN2E3OGNiZjQ
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Bryan Duarte | software engineer
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