Re: It's time to talk by-laws again...

2006-04-19 Thread David Marston
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Ted Roche wrote: Certainly, the ease of doing it this way is attractive. has SwaNH taken other UGs under its wing? Apart from the SIGs they directly formed, they adopted the NH Software President's Forum, took on the Greater Nashua Software Entrepreneurs Group (GNSEG) as a

Re: It's time to talk by-laws again...

2006-04-19 Thread Bruce Dawson
Heather Brodeur wrote: > Bruce Dawson wrote: >>Ted Roche wrote: >>>I'm not sure we have an easy way to distinguish email addresses. >>> >>Yes, but we don't have a good way of ensuring only one person gets a >>vote. Actually, I think this was discussed on the general mailing some >>time ago - I just

Re: It's time to talk by-laws again...

2006-04-19 Thread Jon maddog Hall
Ted, >well, maybe the second meeting. in 1994. Please don't exaggerate. :-) Organization was definitely not discussed until after the third meeting, at least. I was at the first meeting. And I was at the second meeting when the person who organized the first meeting said they could not do it a

Re: It's time to talk by-laws again...

2006-04-19 Thread Jon maddog Hall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Perhaps I'm being a bit over simplistic, but shouldn't we just require > registration to vote? I am starting up Linux International again, and even though I have a free basic membership, the people will have to register to join. After all, this is not much different th

Re: It's time to talk by-laws again...

2006-04-19 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 05:10:36PM -0400, Heather Brodeur wrote: > Bruce Dawson wrote: > >Ted Roche wrote: > >>I'm not sure we have an easy way to distinguish email addresses. > > > >Yes, but we don't have a good way of ensuring only one person gets a > >vote. Actually, I think this was discussed o

Re: It's time to talk by-laws again...

2006-04-19 Thread Ted Roche
That's a very generous offer, David. Certainly, the ease of doing it this way is attractive. has SwaNH taken other UGs under its wing? I'm afraid giving us as much time as we like to engineer a solution => infinity. We've been discussing setting up the organization since, well, maybe the

Re: Junk, er, useful stuff

2006-04-19 Thread Ted Roche
Other stuff found while digging around in the piles. Free to a good home: 9. Linksys BEFSR41 4 -port switch, WAN router 10. Ancient ISA bus Future Domain TMC-1680 SCSI controller with misc. manuals and cables. 11. Belkin Wireless Notebook card, 802.11b v. 1.00 - never got it wor

Re: It's time to talk by-laws again...

2006-04-19 Thread Heather Brodeur
Bruce Dawson wrote: >Ted Roche wrote: > > >>I'm not sure we have an easy way to distinguish email addresses. >> >> > >Yes, but we don't have a good way of ensuring only one person gets a >vote. Actually, I think this was discussed on the general mailing some >time ago - I just can't find it.

Re: It's time to talk by-laws again...

2006-04-19 Thread Bruce Dawson
Jon maddog Hall wrote: > I think you want to have as representatives the people who really want to do > the work and make the group go. They will typically be the ones that (given > a call to run) will respond, and probably (from their own participation > on the lists, list of projects where they

Re: It's time to talk by-laws again...

2006-04-19 Thread Star
There's too much on this whole list to quote from.  It's a great sign for the amount of passion in this!My thoughts on this may be over simplistic, but it's possible to use an existing structure and formalize it for the purpose of chartering and laying the ground work: Currently, there are a number

Re: It's time to talk by-laws again...

2006-04-19 Thread Ted Roche
On Apr 19, 2006, at 8:52 AM, Jon maddog Hall wrote: So what happens if no one from "a small and remote chapter" WANTS to run? Are you going to force them to run? Hog tie them and whip them until they agree to run? "You WILL have representation," Ted shouts. :-) Excellent point. I'm warmi

Re: It's time to talk by-laws again...

2006-04-19 Thread Jon maddog Hall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > While I am advocating two legal entities, it is for legal and > administrative convenience. I was more-or-less thinking that the > administrative functions of one could mostly be a mirror of the other, and > that it would be kept mostly transparent to any volunteers.

Re: Junk, er, useful stuff

2006-04-19 Thread Jon maddog Hall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > 4. Two Handspring PDAs, one of the originals, the second bought as a > refurb. Requires a ROM patch, available on the internet. Includes two > docking stations, a portable docking cradle, original packaging and > manuals, a Targus external keyboard, extra stylii and more

Junk, er, useful stuff

2006-04-19 Thread Ted Roche
I have some piles of stuff I'm hoping to sort out before HossTraders to offer it first come, first serve. If there's anyone on the GNHLUG list who'd be interested in relieving me of any of the items below, speak up and I can bring it to an upcoming meeting or we can work on getting it to yo

Re: It's time to talk by-laws again...

2006-04-19 Thread Ben Scott
On 4/19/06, Jon maddog Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It is for that reason I believe Ben's thought of more than one organization >> has some merit > > I hate to split it up into two organizations. It is hard enough to get > people's > time and energy for *ONE* organization. While I am adv

Re: It's time to talk by-laws again...

2006-04-19 Thread Ed Lawson
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:24:53 -0400 Jon maddog Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I hate to split it up into two organizations. It is hard enough to get people's > time and energy for *ONE* organization. > I share your opinion on this. Ed Lawson __

Re: It's time to talk by-laws again...

2006-04-19 Thread Jon maddog Hall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > It is for that reason I believe Ben's thought of more than one organization > has some merit I hate to split it up into two organizations. It is hard enough to get people's time and energy for *ONE* organization. > or at least it leads us to think about some important

Re: It's time to talk by-laws again...

2006-04-19 Thread Jon maddog Hall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > That's a good solution to the problem, too, although it doesn't require > representation from each chapter. As Bruce said earlier in the thread, > apathy is far more likely a problem, but a group-wide vote makes election > of a member from a small and remote chapter

Re: It's time to talk by-laws again...

2006-04-19 Thread Ed Lawson
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:11:51 -0400 Ted Roche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ed, do you have wisdom to add? > > Yes, I'd like to learn more if anyone has more insights. I'm jammed up right now and will be a few days before I can digest what everyone is saying and get back on the 501(c) (3/6) iss

Re: It's time to talk by-laws again...

2006-04-19 Thread Ted Roche
On Apr 18, 2006, at 5:00 PM, Jon maddog Hall wrote: I would not try to keep it at an odd number unless you either finalize the number of "chapters" (I think this would be unwise) or add an "at large" member every time you add a chapter (also unwise). Chapters come and go, it's true. I woul

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