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Dear members and friends of ipernity,
On March 27, 2022, two mandates within the ima team will become vacant. We invite loyal and active club members to join the ima team to continue shaping the future of ipernity:
Bernhard Westrup (Bergfex), who has devoted himself to the turnaround of our community and our website during the last five years, and has been our Vice-President and Treasurer, will be embarking on his well-deserved retirement. Therefore, the next General Assembly must elect new representatives to these two mandates.
The Vice-President organises the internal and external communication and public relations. This person coordinates all activities to promote our website in appropriate media, helping to ensure that our community has a sufficient influx of new club members.
The Treasurer monitors the incoming payments and the expenditures, and manages the savings. This person can form a team with assistants for this purpose.
If you manage your own livelihood, pay for your own purchases, transfer your rent and bills on time, you will generally be able to do the same for ipernity. Just as easily, you will be able to type incoming membership fees into a cash book and renew the corresponding club memberships with existing tools. Of course, we will train you in these tools and assist you in any other way.
We invite loyal and active club members who have been part of our community for a long time and who care about the future of ipernity to come forward until February 25, 2022. This is the deadline for collecting the agenda items for this years' Ipernity General Assembly. Take this opportunity to shape ipernity's future together with us.
Please contact us now.
Your ima team
Plan B - het op de lange baan schuiven van benoemingen - zal dan alleen maar uitstel van executie zijn. Hoezeer ik dat ook betreur.
Jaap
DeepL Translation:
I don't have a Plan B. I can only hope that Plan A (finding two new board members on time) succeeds. If it doesn't, we'll just have to face the fact that the idea of a 'club' with cooperating members on the board is a nice ideal, but it just doesn't work. All the '1200' have their own reasons for not becoming active.
Plan B - delaying appointments - will then only be a postponement of execution. No matter how much I regret that.
Jaap
It still offers no basis for constructive discussions about possibilities
and conceivable solutions.
We understand your concerns! We as the board share them. Nevertheless, we ask you not to get panic. This would not be fruitful. No one needs to apologise either. It is quite normal that many do not have the skills, health or time to stand for election. But even if only a third of our club members were eligible, that would be more than 300. There are many associations that are not a tenth as big, and yet manage to fill their board mandates.
In this respect, we are optimistic about also mastering this challenge. Please give all those who are thinking about coming forward the necessary peace and time. We all know that most of the momentum is not in the many months before a deadline, but in the last few days before it. Also give us the time to dialogue with those who have already contacted us.
After all, it is not a matter of finding an accountant, but of appointing two board mandates - one of which is required by law, and the other of which is not less important. Interim solutions would be tolerable for a limited period of time with a dedicated regular solution afterwards. We would support any viable idea with such a prospect. If they only serve to postpone, they are not beneficial. Because then an additional Extraordinary General Assembly would have to be convened. We would like to avoid this effort for us and for you.
All these guys who tell us, for legitimate reasons, not to be eligible for a job as a board member - can you spare an hour a week or a month? To transfer incoming payments into an excel sheet? To publish a newsletter every two weeks? To maintain ip's facebook or youtube account? To assist our "technicians"? Just to relieve and help the board members, to make the job looking less extensive?