[volunteers] SVLUG elections

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Ron Guerin (ron at vnetworx.net):

> 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.

Yes, it was evident that alcoholic President Paul Reiber was under that
delusion.  In fact, he specifically thought he could parlay being 'CEO'
of SVLUG into a management job at Google, Inc.  I'm not kidding.  He
really thought that.  Wacko.

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

Fortunately, we've already made most of the most obvious mistakes,
including the 'Oh my god, we're not under a corporate umbrella and have
no insurance!  We need to affiliate with one to be protected against
meteors 'n' stuff!' one.

The people who said that were alarmed because they were told that
Silicon Valley Computer Society, SVLUG's founding corporate umbrella, no
longer existed, and so were panicked into voting to become a SIG of Ian
Kluft's new 501(c)(3) corporation, Sbay.org, in order to get insurance.  
Later investigation by me and by SVLUG President J. Paul Reed uncovered
the facts that

o  Sbay.org hadn't completed its incorporation.  They lied.
o  ...let alone even applied for 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status
o  ...and didn't have any insurance or any prospects of getting any,
   as it would be orders of magnitude too expensive (thus, I'd be
   flabbergasted to hear they have any even now, a half-decade later).
o  ...and Silicon Valley Computer Sociey had _not_ disssolved, anyway

One of my recurring lessons is that computer geeks in the main are
completely incompetent to do routine business operations.  (I happen to
have passed the CPA examination, and used to do them for a living.)