The first section is about our forum rules, and the second section is about the associations regulations.

UWCNETWORK.ORG FORUM GUIDELINES

Please take a moment to review these forum rules detailed below.

Please remember that we are not responsible for any messages posted. We do not vouch for or warrant the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any message, and are not responsible for the contents of any message.

The messages express the views of the author of the message, not necessarily the views of this bulletin board. Any user who feels that a posted message is objectionable is encouraged to contact us immediately by email. We have the ability to remove objectionable messages and we will make every effort to do so, within a reasonable time frame, if we determine that removal is necessary.

You agree, through your use of this service, that you will not use this bulletin board to post any material which is knowingly false and/or defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, or otherwise violative of any law.

You agree not to post any copyrighted material unless the copyright is owned by you or by this bulletin board.

There is no point being anonymous to the community, because this is also an alumni site. If you try to be anonymous or use a cryptic nickname, nobody can find you if they happen to be looking for you in the member database (unless they know your nick). Therefore please use a combination of letters/words/names that reveals who you are to the person that might eventually want to find you. It could be a long lost friend looking for you. Nicks/nicknames are allowed however. Alternately, use your UWCID as a username, as some people already have done - although that is old and cryptic too.

We strongly urge you to introduce yourself fully with some updated information about what you are up to and so forth in your first post in the Introductions forum, which should be posted upon your first visit. In this way people can figure out who you really are, if they happen to be looking for you after several years or even decades. This is one of the main points of the forum, so that old friends and acquaintances may meet up or find each other, so please do not refrain from posting an introductory post.

§1 MEMBERSHIP

To be a full-blown member of the uwcnetwork.org forums and in order to post, use and view the internal Invision Live Chat, Gallery, Downloads, Links, Arcades, Blogs and IT Services, you need to be either:

i) a current student of a United World College.

ii) an alumni of a United World College or UWC Short Course, thus have schooled there/participated in/on a United World College/ UWC short course in any time period and/or at any time.

iii) previous or current staff of a United World College or otherwise employed or affiliated with the UWC Movement or UWC International Organisation.

iv) an applicant to United World Colleges, or with the intention of applying



v) parents/guardians or family of UWC students, alumni and applicants

Applicants to UWC and other "outsiders" are usually not given full access to the all the features but are still allowed to register, and access quite a few of them. They are normally not given access to College Specific forums.
You are required to give information about your status as a UWCer or other affiliation with UWC when you register. We enter you into your UWC group based on this information, so make sure your info is correct in "My Controls" or upon registration, included the amount of years you went to college.

Once we have seen you have registered correctly, you get full posting access to college specific areas and general posting and gallery upload rights and more. Furthermore, you will be able to request IT services (general or specific help, website/blog hosting and more). You will then see that you are part of a group of members shown under your username in your posts (ie. UWCSEA People / UWCAC People). We normally upgrade you after a short period of time ( a day or so) after you register, if we consider your registration correct. Please remember to return to uwcnetwork.org a day or so after registration, to see if you have been upgraded.

If you you fail to register correctly, you will be entered into a group called "Incorrect Registration", and all those accounts will be deleted at regular intervals. You may edit your registration information in "My Controls" to register correctly. Remember to notify the Site Administrator that you have edited your info, and we shall enter you into the correct group.

If you prefer to remain reasonably anonymous and still have full access, then please contact admin@uwcnetwork.org via email and present yourself. Please also give a reason.


§2 POSTING LINKS

If posting links - post only direct links. DO NOT post links to warez (illegal software/music/video/cracks etc.) or porn/explicit material or material containing bestiality. This is supposed to be a nice place to hang out and besides we don't want to be linked to illegal activity.


§3 CORRECT POSTING

When posting make sure you use the correct forum to post in.


§4 PERSONAL ABUSE

NO personal abuse by staff or members will be tolerated. If you want to slag someone off, then do it elsewhere.


§5 ADMINISTRATIVE DECISIONS

Querying decisions is allowed but only appropriate remarks will be acceptable and any abuse of a moderator or administrator will incur an automatic ban.


§6 ADMINISTRATIVE MISTAKES

Mistakes by moderators and administrators are inevitable and will be rectified where possible, but no assumptions should be made by the complainee that they have been made the victim of some injustice or that a decision they disagree with will be overturned.


§7 BEING CIVILIZED IN DISCUSSION

If you incite argument or debate which is based on moral, political, ethical or cultural issues, PLEASE be civilized or you will be banned! Such posts will be moved to the Politics and International Affairs forums, and they are closely moderated for content.


§8 COMPLAINTS

Any complaints about members should in the first instance be addressed to a moderator. Any complaints regarding staff are to be addressed to an administrator.


§9 LANGUAGE

This is an English based post/write forum, so all post's in English only please. Posting in Swahili, Malay or Norwegian for that matter, is considered anti-social and goes against the ethos of this forum.


§10 PRIVACY

Your account is personal to you only. Under no circumstances are you allowed to let others use your account. Your member name can be changed if a good reason can be given.


§11 PRIVATE MESSAGING (PMs) AND PRIVACY

Private messages are what they say - Private!

We do not monitor private messages and will never do so.

Don't use this as a reason to abuse other members/mods/admins - if complaints are brought to the staff we will deal with them in the same way we deal with forum posts.


§12 AVATAR DIMENSIONS AND FILE SIZE
Your Avatar or the picture/graphic next to your name to the left in posts should be no bigger than 110X110 pixels and 20 Kb in size. Signature images should be no bigger than 300 x 400 pixels (that's 300 wide) and 50 Kb in size. They must be linked from another site/web space. If you have trouble making them this small, then contact site admin and they will do it for you. Avatars you upload, may take a while to show up so be patient please, see Comments, Suggestions and Forum Help forum for more information.


§13 POSTING, SHARING OR REQUESTING INFORMATION - BEING CIVILIZED.

- You are not allowed to post/share/request any kind of material which contains ( or implies) "warez", here meaning cracked or pirate versions of commercial software (illegal pirated software), including other material which has been illegally pirated such as music (mp3s etc.), films, movies etc. You are also not allowed to post/share/request any links (URLs) to any other websites offering such material (ie. torrent-sites or warez-sites).

- You are not allowed to post/share/request any kind of material which contains ( or implies) ANY kind of pornography

- You are not allowed to post/share/request any kind of material which contains (or implies) paedophilic/under age pornography or bestiality/animal pornography.

- You are not allowed to post/share/request any kind of material which contains (or implies) asking for or offering information about making or buying or selling drugs or other illegal substances/materials.

- Posting viri or source code of viruses or any tutorials/or material related to creating or spreading viruses is not allowed under any circumstances except in relation to removing or fighting viri or viruses

- Any violation of these rules will get you banned , no questions asked!! This goes without saying for most members, but we nevertheless need to have it in the rules.

§14 UNSUITABLE POSTS

We will not permit the posting of pictures videos or links to any material of extreme violence as an example we no longer wish to see items like war pics from Iraq or videos like the p.o.w execution etc. HOWEVER, if you feel the need to post the picture of a starving African child from Biafra or Darfur to prove a point in discussion, that is OK. We should not get used to seeing some things. Posting such material for "entertainment purposes" gets you banned immediately.

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Lastly

§15 ACCEPTANCE CLAUSE

By accepting membership to these forums you agree to the following:

-You agree, through your use of this service, that you will not use this bulletin board to post any material which is knowingly false and/or defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, or otherwise violative of any law.

You agree not to post any copyrighted material unless the copyright is owned by you or by this bulletin board.

- that the staff/owners of these forums are in no way liable for the content of any posts you or any other member may make here

- that you are solely responsible for your posts or the contents thereof

- you also agree any and all content of these forums shall be covered by the appropriate privacy laws.

ESTABLISHING THE UWCNETWORK.ORG ASSOCIATION


On Tuesday 1^st July 2008 the establishment meeting of the uwcnetwork.org association was held via the internet. This is approximately three years after establishing the forums.

Attending the establishment meeting were:
Einar Olav Holøyen (UWCSEA 1993-95),
Tariq Tobias Imtiaz Omarshah (UWCAC 2006-2008),
Joshua Madere (UWCUSA 2005-2007),
Piangfuan Angela Naksukpaiboon (RCNUWC 2007-2009) and
François Paul-Cavallier (UWCAC 1962-64).

The name of the association is uwcnetwork.org. It shall be written with only small letters.

Members of the uwcnetwork.org team decided to found the uwcnetwork.org association in order to meet the growing requirements to financial institutions and government institutions around the world. Hopefully we will be regarded as a serious association by parties we are in cooperation with, be they UWC International, Paypal.com, UWC National Committees, UWC Scholarship funds, or other businesses, organisations or private persons.

Please also see post in this Rules, Staff and Announcements forum regarding the consistence of the Executive Committtee and Regulations for uwcnetwork.org (see below).



REGULATIONS FOR THE UWCNETWORK.ORG ASSOCIATION

(CLICK TO DOWNLOAD A .PDF OF THE REGULATIONS FOR UWCNETWORK.ORG)

WORKING AIMS AND PRINCIPALS

§1 UWCNETWORK.ORG is an independent and freeholding association. Its aim is to conduct information-work for and networking-work between persons, organizations and enterprises which are or will be associated with United World Colleges. Furthermore the association runs fundraising efforts which proceeds are given as scholarships to students attending the United World Colleges.

§2 The association will in its work emphasize fundraising efforts, networking efforts and information-work.

§3 The association shall secure justifiable administration and operation. As much as possible shall benefit the recipients.

§4 The association will in its work strive for a broad public participation in its work, and gather people across international, cultural, political and religious boundaries.

ADDRESSES AND MEMBERSHIP

§5 The administration has its address in the Municipality of Bergen, Norway.

§6 Members of the association can be anyone who agrees in the aims of the association. There is no membership-fee in order to be a member.

ANNUAL MEETING

§7 The annual meeting is the association's highest authority. The annual meeting is held at least once a year, and is summoned with at 14 days notice. In the summons to the meeting the cases to be handled shall be listed. The revised accounts shall be enclosed. An extraordinary annual meeting is summoned in the same way.

§8 The annual meeting can be held with the help of the internet, and the participants do not have to physically attend.

§9 The chairman summons for the annual meeting. Extraordinary annual meeting can also be summoned if 1/3 of the members wish for it. The annual meeting shall:

- go through and approve of the executive committee's annual report

- go through and approve the annual audit

- discuss other issues mentioned in the summons to the meeting

- discuss the operations of the association in general

§10 All members who have attended or are attending one of the United World Colleges, have the right of attendance, right of speech and the right to vote in the annual meeting. Others can, according to the annual meetings decision, receive the right of attendance and right of speech.

§11 Proposals at the annual meeting are passed with simple majority. If an equality of vote occurs the proposal is dropped. A change in the regulations demands ¾ of the votes. Changing the regulations regarding working aims and principals (§§ 1, 2, 3 and 4) demand ¾ of the votes at two annual meetings in a row, with at least 14 days between each meeting.

§12 If the association's work must cease, the annual meeting decides how funds shall be used within the boundaries which are set by the aims of the association.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

§13 The executive committee shall make sure:

- The association is run according to the prevailing regulations

- To supervise/decide planning and operation of each and all of the efforts and projects.

- To manage funds from production and fundraising

- To take initiative in the development of the associations work

§14 The consistence of the executive committee:

- The executive committee consists of five representatives. The chairman, deputy chairman and three representatives are elected by the annual meeting.

- The chairman and deputy chairman are elected in their own elections. Afterwards the representatives are elected.

- The chairman and deputy chairman are chosen for a year. The other committee members are chosen for two years, in such a way that not more than half the executive committee is chosen at any one time.

§15 The association is committed outwards in economic issues by the signature of the chairman or the general manager.

DEPARTMENTS /GROUPS

§16 The association can be organized in departments and/or groups. These can be lead by elected representatives or elected committees. The annual meeting decides the establishment of departments/groups, and how these shall be organized and led.

§17 The departments/groups economic liability is the associations liability, and departments/groups cannot make agreements or represent the association outwards without the approval of the executive committee.

DISSOLUTION

§18 (§18 cannot be changed) Dissolution of the association can only be treated at the annual meeting. If dissolution is decided with a 2/3 majority vote, an extraordinary annual meeting is summoned 3 months later. For the dissolution to take place the resolution must be repeated with 2/3 majority vote.

§19 A union with other associations or organizations is not considered the dissolution of the association.


The membership fee was set to NOK 0,-, since no membership fee is required.