On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 06:47:32PM +0000, John Demme wrote: > Nope- not kidding. I was pretty pissed when they started hounding me > about it. I spent about two months arguing via email with the campus > groups person. I even looked up the trademark to verify that they > weren't lying. It's total BS, but the bottom line is that they own > it, and furthermore, they give us money.
Well, then I won't bother looking it up. :-) Yay for them giving the LUG money. > What has changed? I'm not certain. Some asshole bureaucrat was > probably just bored some afternoon. I couldn't get a straight answer > out of them as to why now, and why we weren't informed of this when we > started using it years ago. Stupid UM. Oh, well, life goes on. > They'd have a hard time arguing trademark on that one, but it could > happen. The reason I like UMLUG at Maryland Linux Users group is that > we're still using Uxxxx at Maryland- which will probably piss them > off, but we can still use it. I like it for that reason too. > I thought the same, but when I looked at the constitution, it turns > out that voting on amendments is different from voting for officers. Har! I remember that now. We were told that officers could only be elected by undergrads, but they didn't say anything about amendments to the constitution then, either. [Expect this to change at some point in the future, because it will be hilarious.] > Article VII says that it takes a 2/3 majority vote from the active > membership and the active membership includes UMCP students, staff, > and faculty. Voting for officers is restricted to UMCP undergrads. > I'm not certain if this is in line with SGA policy, but they haven't > yet rejected our constitution due to it, so we might as well stick > with it. Works for me. Ben -- Ben Stern UNIX & Networks Monkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] This post does not represent FTI, even if I claim it does. Neener neener. UM Linux Users' Group Electromagnetic Networks Microbrew Software
