Marvin, Plug membership and plug mailing list members are different NOW. I only wanted to mention how things were. I understand and have no objection on the need to distinguish the two...same for face-to-face meetings. I also wanted to emphasize the info dissemination as regards minutes of meetings, et al.
Sammy -----Original Message----- From: Marvin T. Pascual [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 1:58 PM To: Philippine Linux Users Group Mailing List Subject: RE: [plug] Proceedings of the PLUG General Assembly, 18 December 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > PLUG membership was initially designed to be free...that anyone who > joins this mailing list is automatically a member. Dunno if the > archives of the list captured that thought. Maybe some of the oldies > could say something about this. PLUG membership is different to PLUG mailing list members. If you want to learn something, you don't need to be a member of PLUG but rather with the mailing list only. We carefully deliberated this issue and PLUG, Inc. is an organization composed of volunteers (hopefully with commitments) who really want to share their skills, time, etc. for the organization in which all members will abide it's Constitution and By-Laws. > The old membership "policy"/style was made that way to welcome newbies > and experts alike as well as to promote linux. With a change in > membership policy, it is proper to inform everyone in this mailing > list on the details such as rationale for the change, what the changes > are, date of effectivity, et al. Yes, we will do that. Unfortunately, I can't say much for our Secretary and/or Secretariat because they might be busy at the moment. But we definitely inform the community. > As for Rommel's suggestion, pls also post the mechanisms for amendments. > Those concerned might be interested to know what the current board > feels about this proposal. It's easy to suggest but it's not easy to do it. We also have to consider the benefits that the organization will gain. Now, if you already got a copy of the Constitution and By-Laws and willing to help us improve it, you can do the following: [1] be a member of good standing [2] submit your proposed amendments and discuss it with any of the board members > I propose that the minutes of meetings be posted here since not all > members of this list are able to attend face-to-face meetings. This > will also help promote linux and plug. I hope that Mr. Paolo Falcone can post the minutes of last Saturday's General Assembly in PLUG-Org mailing list. By the way, I would like to clear something that it's good to conduct meetings, discuss projects, make communications, etc. electronically but the organization needs people who can attend, do projects and etc. physically to help us make PLUG a REAL and PRODUCTIVE organization to the community. We need people who can commit themselves to provide free services to the community, to the organization. In service to humanity, --- MARVIN T. PASCUAL E-mail: mpascual AT qsr DOT com DOT ph Tel. No. +63 2 9200189 Mobile No. +63 918 4115188 Yahoo! Messenger ID: bintut GNU/Linux User No. 247127 ---o0o---o0o---o0o---o0o---o0o---o0o---o0o---o0o--- Diskless Thin Client Networking using GNU/Linux ---o0o---o0o---o0o---o0o---o0o---o0o---o0o---o0o--- -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
