A draft instrument, unadopted. It continues the two changes indexes this estate already publishes rather than restating them, records what the audit of 2026-08-19 found stale in them, and carries three seed entries staged for the board. Entering a row here changes nothing: only the board act a row refers to can change an instrument, and only a minute evidences that act.
The steward's direction was to create and deploy a change log, informed by the log on techne.institute, audited and updated. This page is the continuation of a record that already exists in two places, and the first thing it owes the reader is an accurate account of where that record already lives.
The change record exists in this estate and on techne.institute both. A working draft of this instrument said no change log page existed anywhere in the techne.coop repository; that was wrong, and it is corrected here rather than carried forward. This estate publishes both indexes:
| page | what it holds |
|---|---|
| /legal/bylaws-analysis/changes/ | Bylaws Proposed Changes Index. Counsel Analysis issues BL-01 through BL-08; research addendum items BL-A01 through BL-A07 (May 2026). Changes from Bylaws v.1 to v.2 |
| /legal/membership-agreement-analysis/changes/ | Membership Agreement Proposed Changes Index. Counsel Analysis issues MA-01 through MA-07; addendum items MA-A01 through MA-A04, plus a cross-document conflicts section pairing MA items with BL items |
| techne.institute/legal/bylaws-analysis/changes/ and /legal/membership-agreement-modifications/changes/ | The same two indexes, published on the older estate. Fetched 2026-08-19, HTTP 200 |
This log does not restate those entries. Duplicating the record would be worse than not writing it: two copies of BL-01 drift, and a reader cannot tell which one a motion cited. The two indexes remain the record of v.1 to v.2 and are linked from every entry that touches them. This page carries the series forward from where they end.
Each index is a table of entries with four columns: ID, Title, Section, Nature, where Nature draws from a fixed vocabulary (Blocking, High priority, Advisable, Clarifying, Extends, New, Affirmed, Diverges). Each ID anchors a detail block below the table carrying a Problem statement and a Proposed change with the from-text and the to-text. Cross-references are inline links by ID. This log keeps that shape so an entry reads the same wherever it sits.
Reported, not corrected. Correcting an index is itself a change, and it belongs in a row here once someone with standing directs it.
| finding | detail |
|---|---|
| proposals already executed are not marked | The indexes record proposals against v.1, but the published v.2 text already carries several of them: the BL-02 notice-and-hearing language, the BL-06 three-year redemption window, and the BL-08 conflict hierarchy and citation fix in the Preamble. No entry says so |
| section numbers are v.1 numbers | v.2 renumbers, so a reader following an index into the current text can land in the wrong section |
| MA-A05 is referenced and unindexed | The techne.institute legal index says Issue 3, the Subchapter K vocabulary item, was resolved in MA-A05. The Membership Agreement changes index lists no MA-A05 |
| nothing after May 2026 is indexed | The v.2 to v.2.1 conformity fixes described on the summary page (June 2026: the Subchapter K vocabulary substitutions across MA sections 2.4, 3.3, 5.4, 9.5; the MA 5.4 capital-account cross-reference; the quorum fix) have no IDs. The June 24, 2026 board actions on rates and class structure are not logged |
| a referenced page is missing | techne.institute/legal/hub-membership-agreement/ returned 404 on 2026-08-19 while the index describes the instrument. This estate carries the same gap under the name Hub Participation Agreement |
| ID | title | section | nature |
|---|---|---|---|
| BL-09 | Community Participant is called "a member" (extends BL-A04) | 1.1(c) | Blocking |
| MA-08 | Placeholder: v.2 to v.2.1 conformity fixes to be indexed | multiple | Housekeeping |
| LOG-01 | Establish this log at techne.coop/legal/change-log/ | new instrument | New |
The June versus July ratification conflict, logged as the open reading at DOC-01·08, is answered, if the steward's statement of 2026-08-19 holds, by the finding that no final ratification has occurred at all. The published record is split on it. The techne.institute legal index says of Bylaws v.2: "Ratified by board vote, June 2026. Legally in effect." The techne.institute summary page says: "The Bylaws and Membership Agreement are v.2.1 drafts, not yet ratified, not yet binding on any member." Both fetched 2026-08-19. Both are pages this estate published about its own work, so neither is evidence of what the board did.
This estate's own legal shelf takes neither side: it carries the Bylaws as Drafted and states that the accounts of the mid-2026 verbal board action do not agree and that no minute supplies any of them. That is the honest position and this log does not disturb it. The answer enters the evidence chain only when a board minute recites it. Until then, every entry that depends on the Bylaws being a draft carries that dependency on its face, and whichever way the recital settles it, the page that loses must be corrected and the correction logged here.