[volunteers] bylaws

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Bruce Coston (jane_ikari at yahoo.com):

> CORRECT - our bylaws are " not available for viewing " and the guy
> pretending he's still our president has even hidden behind that lack.
> I was consulted when those bylaws were written, Loss of his veep =
> election time for Paul and not just get a new veep !  ]

Bruce, can you tell me where I can find anything at all (e.g., a former
URL, a contemporaneous mention on a mailing list) stating that SVLUG
ever, at any point, adopted bylaws (except in a derivative sense through
its two prior parent organisations having had them)?  Ever since hearing
you (and, I think, Alvin) claim that we used to have bylaws and that
they've mysteriously vanished, I've gone back and found nothing -- which
is what I expect, having been involved in this organisation since 1997
and being pretty sure I'd remember bylaws if they'd ever existed.

I _did_ find this response to David P. Christensen on the subject (on
svlug at lists.svlug.org) from then-VP Marc Merlin, on 2003-04-18 (thread 
entitled "bylaws, list policies, web pages..."):


  > I think it would be better if there were SVLUG bylaws which
  > governed the creation, ratification, modification, and
  > implementation of policies related to SVLUG community services.
 
  Not gonna happen, at least as long as I have something to do with it.
  1) svlug is supposed to be fun and technically oriented. Writing
     bylaws, having monthly meetings with quorums and votes is boring as
     hell (I know, one of the clubs I used to belong to did that)

  2) svlug used to be a SIG of SVCS, which has its own bylaws so
     that we don't need to deal with that

(I've grepped through the entire mailing list archives of
svlug at lists.svlug.org, volunteers-old at lists.svlug.org, and
volunteers at lists.svlug.org -- plus the 1997-1999 majordomo archive that
hasn't yet been merged into Mailman's Web repository.  FYI.)


So, while I am willing to be convinced that there were bylaws that I was
somehow unaware of and that mysteriously vanished, I'm skeptical --
partly because I've spent a long time hunting (at the svlug.svlug.org
shell prompt) the Web site's file tree for accidentally delinked pages
and resurrecting them, starting during the J. Paul Reed administration,
and partly because I've recently spent a few hours searching through
various subtrees of http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.svlug.org/ 
attempting to investigate your claim, and still coming up dry.