At 18:26 05/10/2005 -0700, Joshua Penix wrote: >On May 10, 2005, at 6:10 PM, Neil Schneider wrote: > > >> SDMUG. Then SDMUG stopped publishing their magazine, because the >> member who was producing it quit. Suddenly SDMUG's treasury ballooned, >> since they were no longer spending large sums to produce a slick >> covered MAC magazine. By rights, they should have started paying SDCS >> dues of $30/year like all the other SIG members did. >> > >Yeah but no other SIG members were paying $30/year. How many SDCS >members were there actually within the ranks of KPLUG? Six? Wasn't >it one of the other SIGs that had exactly ZERO SDCS members, yet they >were covered by insurance and were using room reservations?
The regular SDCS members were paying the $30/year. Despite the fact that only a few every showed up for meetings, there was still a loyal group that paid their $30/year. >And SDCS did the exact same thing as SDMUG - they stopped producing >their monthly newsletter, and suddenly SDCS membership renewals >dropped off a cliff. True. And the money went into the SDCS treasury, where it paid for the insurance, phone, mailbox, and other items to maintain the SDCS while SDMUG tried to not even pay their $6/member. >> Instead they staged a coup, took over SDCS. All legal, I personally >> certified the election. Then they changed the rules to allow >> themselves to seperate from SDCS and take the treasury, which by law >> belongs to SDCS, with them. >> > >Sure. But it wasn't just for SDMUG, it was for all SIGs. The >changes they succeeded in making to the SIG guidelines were changes >that everyone had been wanting for years. Those changes needed to be >done, since the purpose of SDCS changed and the bylaws and board >efforts didn't change with it. > >Granted, it was a somewhat self-serving effort, but if they really >had no intent other than to make it easy for them to leave, why >didn't they pick up and leave last September after the new bylaws >were ratified? > >Let them go now. They want to go, let's make it easy for them and >easy on us. This transition can be smooth, or it can be rocky. > >Let's see what we can do to make it smooth. I assume the first step >is the meeting at Gus' house? Can someone please confirm that it's >happening and exactly where/when? Neil told me last night that the meeting is at my house tonight. 8774 Encino Ave San Diego, CA 92123 Phone 858-565-1666 6pm Gus -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-steer
