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Dear MEI community members,</p>
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MEI By-laws</a>.<span> Focal changes are the explicit accomodation of any type of music notation, not only Western, in section 2 ("Purpose"), the clarification of Personal and Institutional membership in section 3 ("Membership"), and the explicit integration
of appointed offices of the Board and a fine-tuning of the election procedure. Other changes concern minor corrections to wording.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">Options to view the proposed changes include:<br>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">1) a compiled overview of the changes in a GoogleDoc (<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cHVVA8gkRI-gFDLo4YbtHgslP9K37IbOxX1ctSd_HeA/edit?usp=sharing" class="OWAAutoLink"></a><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Kg46Nw-D8Pe7dj341-NH-9UaFy5Ksw7tlJ7x_syqvug/edit?usp=sharing" class="OWAAutoLink">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Kg46Nw-D8Pe7dj341-NH-9UaFy5Ksw7tlJ7x_syqvug/edit?usp=sharing</a>)<br>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">2) a "diff" in the dedicated Pull Request on Github (<a href="https://github.com/music-encoding/music-encoding.github.io/pull/234/files" class="OWAAutoLink">https://github.com/music-encoding/music-encoding.github.io/pull/234/files</a>)<br>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">According to the By-Laws, any proposed amendments must be approved by the MEI community, following this procedure:</p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span>"Changes to these by-laws become proposed amendments with a simple majority of the complete Board membership. Proposed amendments will be published on the MEI mailing list (MEI-L)
and the MEI website. After a minimum 10-day comment period, the Board will discuss comments on the proposed amendments received from the MEI membership and incorporate changes agreed to by a simple majority of the Board. The agreed upon version of the amended
by-laws will be presented to the MEI membership for voting over a minimum 7-day period. The amended version of the by-laws must pass with a two-thirds (2/3) majority of votes in order to become effective.</span>" (<a href="https://music-encoding.org/community/mei-by-laws.html#10-amendments" class="OWAAutoLink">https://music-encoding.org/community/mei-by-laws.html#10-amendments</a>)<br>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">The Board invites you to provide any additional comments you have to the GoogleDoc or the Pull Request above.<br>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">Any comments before
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July 5th (23:59:59, UTC-11)</a> will be considered for final discussion within the Board. The agreed upon version of the amended By-laws will be put to vote over a minimum 7-day period before MEC2021. The voting results will be presented during the Community
Meeting at MEC2021.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span>Thank you,</span><br>
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Stefan<br>
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