The official bylaws of the CMU KGB
The text of the bylaws is stored (already formatted) in the plaintext file
bylaws.current. The script makebylaws.sh exports this text (almost)
verbatim to a PDF. This script should never need to be run by itself. The
Makefile provides commands to generate the bylaws.
To generate the bylaws PDF, make sure bylaws.current is up to date and run
make (or make current).
This should clean up any temporary files (tex, aux, log) it makes along the
way. If you somehow end up with such files anyway, running make clean will
delete them. If you also want to delete the generated PDF, use make veryclean instead.
Most interactions with this repo will probably be to make amendments, so the
Makefile provides for this case. When an amendment is proposed, copy
bylaws.current to bylaws.amended. Make the proposed changes to
bylaws.amended. To generate the amended PDF, run make amended, which will
created bylaws_amended.pdf.
Keep in mind the bylaws say "Last amended on" at the very bottom, so be sure to
keep that up to date. A good practice is to update this in bylaws.amended
when that file is created and use the date on which the vote will occur. If
the vote passes, simply rename bylaws.amended to bylaws.current and the
date will be correct.
Whenever a PDF (current or amended) is generated, the previous PDF is moved to
archives and timestamped.
After the bylaws have been amended, be sure to update the following places:
- The PDF on The Bridge
- The Wiki
- The copy in the Exec Dropbox
- The AFS space - just pull the existing clone of this repo
make: Generatebylaws.pdffrombylaws.currentmake amended: Generatebylaws_amended.pdffrombylaws.amended