Add public minutes for May 2024 MGM

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+title: Monthly General Meeting, May 2024
+author: She
+excerpt: >
+    Confirmation of new staffer, adding a venue clause to our policies,
+    possible namespace policy update, purging highly expired registrations,
+    policy typo fix
+---
+
+## Confirmation of new members
+
+This meeting voted to confirm the organization membership of the staff member
+invited after the previous meeting.
+
+## Propositions and motions
+
+### Add a venue clause or similar to our policies
+
+This meeting discussed adding a forum selection clause to our policies.
+As we are a Swedish organization, the clause would specify that legal action
+taken against us must be done through the Swedish court system.
+While such clauses are not universally enforceable,
+our understanding is that it would be enforceable in the EU in general.
+
+No specific wording was decided upon, and ultimately this meeting agreed
+to postpone this topic. Our policy does not have a severability clause,
+lack of which could lead to an argument that our TOS as a whole is void
+because of an unenforceable venue clause.
+
+### Are namespaces working for us as documented?
+
+Recently, a few channels that were incorrectly in the single-# namespace
+were denied staff assistance registering with ChanServ. Staff do not
+typically close unregistered single-# channels whose participants adhere to
+the network's acceptable use policies, but do not support them either.
+During this meeting, an argument was made that it is generally better to
+allow those channels to register than it is to let them persist unregistered
+because the channel's members do not agree to a redirect.
+
+This meeting decided on no particular course of action,
+instead agreeing to revisit this topic next month with a concrete policy
+amendment. This meeting also affirmed that that successful group registration
+cannot be a condition for registering a single-# channel.
+
+### Should we do an expired NickServ/ChanServ registration purge?
+
+Previous meetings have brought up name and channel squatting as an issue
+that needs improvement for the benefit of new users of the network.
+New users are usually not aware of the nickname and channel expiration
+policies, and purging old registrations would free up some channels
+that are effectively opless. In particular, there were a large number of
+registrations in the few weeks immediately following Libera.Chat
+opening to the public that have now been expired for around 3 years.
+
+This meeting decided on no particular course of action, but expressed
+a strong preference to only free up the landrush registrations.
+A specific proposal will be created and presented for internal discussion.
+
+## Late agenda items
+
+There was one late agenda item that was approved at the start of this meeting.
+
+### Replace an instance of "defense" with "defence" in policies
+
+Our style guide states that our website content (including policies)
+is to be written in British English, and "defense" is the American English
+spelling of that word. While our bylaws do not require MGM approval for
+typo fixes in our policies, there is precedent to seek it anyway.
+
+This meeting approved the typo fix.