[volunteers] SVLUG elections

[Ron Guerin]

Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Ron Guerin (ron at vnetworx.net):
> 
>> Well, I think the goal of the coup will be realized.   Those involved
>> don't much seem to care about how it all looks in public and now have
>> their incorporation to claim legitimacy.
> 
> I'd be surprised if that convinces anyone, though the Board might be
> convinced it'll convince everyone.  All they've really bought themselves
> is the need to have new bureaucracy they never had before:

Part of what's in play here is a somewhat off the wall notion that
there's money can be wrung out of NYLUG somehow.  It's certainly true
that one could use it to promote themselves and their business on the
cheap, but I think the value of it is small.

>> I have gotten enough private mail from volunteer organizers of user
>> groups to know this sort of thing happens all too often.
> 
> Sure -- though, in general, people are reluctant to come across to the
> public as thieves and usurpers.  If you think about it, pretty much the
> only property a LUG has that is problematic to replace is its Internet
> domain registrations.
> 
>> As NYLUG was essentially SVLUG circa 1998 exported via Jim Gleason,
>> NYLUG's definition of membership was deliberately lifted from your
>> policy.  I'm trying to give the members under the existing definition a
>> say in the matter, but I'm not that hopeful.
> 
> If it'll help, you're welcome to forward any of my mails on these
> subjects to anyone -- typos and all.
> 
> In fact, as you doubtless realise, all four e-mails (plus yours) are
> immediately part of the public record via the public SVLUG Volunteers
> archive, which you could also point people to if that's useful.
> http://lists.svlug.org/archives/volunteers/

Yes, my warning about "this could happen to you" was directed at the
SVLUG volunteers.

- Ron