bylaw for absent member participation/vote by Skype or conference phone.

[Guest Chrislowenberg]

What language is needed in bylaws to allow absent members to listen to meeting and vote?

[Dan Honemann]

What language is needed in bylaws to allow absent members to listen to meeting and vote?

Around here, preferably English.

[JohnR]

See the treatment of Electronic Meetings at RONR (11th ed.), pp.97-99

[Guest Edgar]

What language is needed in bylaws to allow absent members to listen to meeting and vote?

You might take a look at these articles on electronic meetings. They're more than ten years old now, which is a lifetime in digital technology, but perhaps they're not entirely obsolete. Certainly the fundamental principles don't change.

[J. J.]

What language is needed in bylaws to allow absent members to listen to meeting and vote?

No rule would be needed to let members listen to a meeting. You basically should get "someone" to write a bylaw clause to permit absentee voting of this type.