[svlug] svlug bylaws (Google Docs)

[Warren Turkal]

On Dec 2, 2007 1:08 AM, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
> Quoting Warren Turkal (wturkal at gmail.com):
>
> > I am open to suggestions. If you have a better ideas of where to host
> > these docs, please let me know.
>
> I am unclear what "these docs" means.  If you are simply putting a file
> somewhere, SVLUG has a handy Web site for that purpose.
>
> If you are collecting three items of information (name, preferred times,
> e-mail address) from various people, I might suggest collecting them via
> e-mail and putting them in a file on the Web site.  HTML might be good.  ;->

It's available as HTML at [1]. I don't have any desire to hand code
HTML. If you are volunteering to do such a thing, I'll be more than
willing to let you take over collecting the contacts.

Also, I already said that I'm wiling to make additions if folks that
don't want to create themselves an account.

> If you are seriously contemplating a "virtual meeting", I would suggest
> reconsidering that approach for anything as serious as drafting
> suggested organisational documents.  My long, long experience is that
> if people will not put in the time to attend a couple of face-to-face
> meetings, the quality of contributions you will get from them will
> generally lack badly, as they are just doing the standard
> offhand-opinion Internet thing.

I am suggesting that we get as many of us together as possible and
allow the others to join by teleconference. I don't see any harm in
trying to make it more accessible by people who actually care about
the group. The two members that I had in mind are in SF without an
automobile for transportation. Do you have a better ideas about how to
accommodate their interests in participating?

> This is one of several reasons why _all_ of SVLUG's organisational
> meetings to date have as a careful and deliberate matter of policy been
> face-to-face.  There are others.

I think that you are seriously blowing this situation out of
proportion. I am trying to make it as openly accessible as possible
while still respecting the fact that everyone has lives outside of
SVLUG.

[1]http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pGVGG0z1f7HFmgWFs4ERVIA&inv=svlug@lists.svlug.org&t=6212078214740656643&guest

wt