Re: [uug] Elections

2009-04-11 Thread Matthew Gardner
In light of current circumstances and platforms, I propose we go forward with this and allow people to run strictly for vice president if they want to. On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Todd Millecam tyg...@cs.byu.edu wrote: Runner-up for president gets vice president. Personally, I want to

Re: [uug] Elections

2009-04-11 Thread Lloyd Brown
Matthew Gardner wrote: In light of current circumstances and platforms, I propose we go forward with this and allow people to run strictly for vice president if they want to. On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Todd Millecam tyg...@cs.byu.edu mailto:tyg...@cs.byu.edu wrote: Runner-up for

Re: [uug] Elections

2009-04-11 Thread Alvin ONeal
I am pro change-of-charter on the VP issue. The President is the person who executes ideas and direction. VP is a supporting role to the President in his ideas and direction, who offers input, but largely supports. If you have two people who want to be President and one becomes the VP, then you

Re: [uug] Elections

2009-04-11 Thread Lloyd Brown
Alvin ONeal wrote: I am pro change-of-charter on the VP issue. The President is the person who executes ideas and direction. VP is a supporting role to the President in his ideas and direction, who offers input, but largely supports. If you have two people who want to be President and one

Re: [uug] Elections

2009-04-11 Thread Matthew Gardner
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Lloyd Brown lloyd_br...@byu.edu wrote: Just so we're clear, I also support this change to the charter. What I was saying is that we need to follow proper procedure to do so. I'm not a club officer, and I don't have much desire to become one at this point,

Re: [uug] Elections

2009-04-11 Thread Jacob Adams
Tack on another vote for change... Wow, that sounds like Obama... Jake Adams Doesn't talk about actually amending the charter, but it talks about voting for things. As of now, it looks like we have 4 votes in favor of changing the charter to allow someone to run for vice president

Re: [uug] Elections

2009-04-11 Thread Stuart Jansen
On Sat, 2009-04-11 at 09:35 -0600, Lloyd Brown wrote: Um. Doesn't the charter have to be changed *before* we do something like this? It's been a while since I read the charter, but presumably there's some procedure for changing it, built into the charter itself. Speaking of which, where

Re: [uug] Elections

2009-04-11 Thread Matthew Gardner
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Stuart Jansen sjan...@buscaluz.org wrote: On Sat, 2009-04-11 at 09:35 -0600, Lloyd Brown wrote: Speaking of which, where would one find a copy of the club charter? http://web.archive.org/web/20060901102327/http://uug.byu.edu/charter.php Well, it looks like

Re: [uug] Election Update

2009-04-11 Thread Todd Millecam
Well, I know this is now no longer timely--but for the last month I was going to base my running platform on updating the club charter, I'll give some specifics of what I had in mind later. In light of the acceptance of a proposed measure, I will not be putting up the polls tonight. If there are

Re: [uug] Elections

2009-04-11 Thread Dave Smith
On Apr 11, 2009, at 1:34 PM, Stuart Jansen wrote: http://web.archive.org/web/20060901102327/http://uug.byu.edu/charter.php Now that is one good looking web site!! 330 registered members. Member of the day. Screenshot of the day. Polls. What a cool thing to have for a club. A nickel to the

Re: [uug] Elections

2009-04-11 Thread Alex Esplin
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 20:33, Dave Smith d...@thesmithfam.org wrote: On Apr 11, 2009, at 1:34 PM, Stuart Jansen wrote: http://web.archive.org/web/20060901102327/http://uug.byu.edu/charter.php Now that is one good looking web site!! 330 registered members. Member of the day. Screenshot of

Re: [uug] Elections

2009-04-11 Thread Byron Clark
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 08:33:56PM -0600, Dave Smith wrote: A nickel to the first person who can remember the name of the excellent Gimp hacker who created the logo. Ben Crowder put that together using POV-Ray and The GIMP. He used to have a tutorial up on his website[1] but it seems to be

Re: [uug] Elections

2009-04-11 Thread Todd Millecam
Here's my platform in a nutshell: Update the club charter: - change it so someone can run for Vice President explicitly - allow alumni to be considered official members of the UUG - outline collaborating with other user groups - have a set procedure for making an amendment to the charter

Re: [uug] Elections

2009-04-11 Thread Mark Gardner
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Todd Millecam tyg...@cs.byu.edu wrote: Here's my platform in a nutshell: Update the club charter: - change it so someone can run for Vice President explicitly - allow alumni to be considered official members of the UUG - outline collaborating with other

Re: [uug] Elections

2009-04-11 Thread Andrew McNabb
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 08:45:05PM -0600, Todd Millecam wrote: If re-elected president of the UUG, I intend to make this club more organized--starting with its foundations. The club charter has served us well in the past, but is in dire need of an update. I propose that we write a new