On Tue, Sep 23, 2003, at 10:38 PDT, Ryan Madison wrote:
> All,
>       First, I apologize for the cross post. Second, I would be happy to
> volunteer for the board. Although I haven't been able to make it to some
> of the meetings this summer due to work requirements, I am enthusiastic
> about Linux and Open Source software, and I believe that with ~10 years
> university / corporate experience, I could add value to NNCS. I'm not
> afraid to speak up, and generally landed in leadership roles in most of
> the jobs I have held.

Excellent.

> On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 14:34, Sam Phillips wrote:
> > Outstanding Issues
> > 
> >     - Ideas?  Any ideas or specific concerns please speak up and send it
> >       to the lists.  We need existing "member" input now before we end
> >       up screwing something up.
> 
> I think the group had a good idea at the last rlug meeting. - To get
> everyone together who is interested to formerly discuss organizing this
> group. I'd suggest sometime before the next rlug meeting. 

Agreed.  Going to draft up a quick announce for that.

> >     - Twelve Horses North America owes RLUG $3400.  Ideas on getting
> >       these funds?
> >     - Should we get a server?
> 
> What kind of horsepower are we looking for? - I could probably commender
> a Dell Optiplex GX1 400Mhz PII / 512KB L2 Cache, 128MB SDRAM, 9GB EIDE
> Disk drive, integrated 3Com NIC for NNCS exclusive use. - Not the
> biggest box, but it might suffice. 

Hey that could work.  If people are interested in donating server
hardware (or components) post what you have.  We might be able to get a
nice machine for this without much cost.  Also something like a 1-2u
case would probably be good.

> >     - Need Article of Incorporation.
> >     - Need to approve Corporate Bylaws.
> 
> A couple comments on the draft by-laws: 
> 
> #
> ARTICLE 3
> DIRECTORS
> SECTION 1. NUMBER
> The corporation shall have 9 directors and collectively they shall be
> known as the Board of Directors. 
> #
> 
> 9 directors seems like a lot for our group, what does everyone thing
> about 7? 

Yeah that sounds much more reasonable for this group.  I took these
bylaws from a much larger group.

> I think we should review the Draft Bylaws to see what makes sense for
> our specific circumstances. For example, should we use the Special
> Interest Group provision, make the NNCS the parent organization, and
> rlug and rawug each be a SIG underneath that?

Yes that was the reason for the SIGs.

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Sam Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>                http://www.dasbistro.com
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