[wplug-board] Changes need *soon!* to the WPLUG Voting, Dues, and Registration pages

[David Ostroske]

Here are the changes to the vote page. If we want to, we could set up
a parallel "vote2006" and make it identical except for the changes
below.

I'm leaving out details that can be found on the ballot. I'll simply
mention the details that need to be provided.

Could somebody... Vance, Bill, Mark D., Duncan, anyone... make these
changes? Either that, or give me access to Penguin so that I can
change them myself?

Here are the changes, by section:
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INTRODUCTION
Change the date, time, and location of the annual meeting.

Link to the new PDF ballot and the new HTML ballot.

WHO CAN VOTE
Replace this entire section (except the header) with this HTML text.
---BEGIN
The rules regarding who may vote are in the <a
href="/pages/bylaws">bylaws</a> that were approved on September 8,
2005 by the Western PA Linux Users Group board.
<p>
The current Board of Directors is:
<ul>
  <li>Bill Moran, Chair
  <li>Beth Lynn Eicher, Vice-Chair
  <li>David Ostroske, Secretary
  <li>Patrick Wagstrom, Treasurer
  <li>Chris Teodorski, Director-At-Large
</ul>
Official members of WPLUG who have paid their <a
href="/membership/dues">annual dues</a> and have <a
href="/membership/">registered for membership</a> before August 26,
2006 may vote in the October 21 election. There are 82 members, and 45
of them are charter members whose voting rights lapse if they do not
renew.

<p>

The following charter members must renew their annual dues and supply
us with their mailing addresses, in order to be eligible to vote for
the October 21 election: Paul Bialozor, Jonathan Billings, Steven
Boffardi, Ryan Brown, Stephen Carter, Evelyn Chao, Dan Cielecy,
Michael Conlon, Mark Dalrymple, Brough Davis, Phil Dorsey, Warren
Dukes, Beth Lynn Eicher, Bill Eicher, Bobbie Eicher, Matthew Engel,
Richard Farina, Stephen Hancock, Michael Hansell, Matthew Hughes,
Duncan Hutty, Vance Kochenderfer, John Koczko, Scott Kriebel, Bill
Lavin, Arnaud Loos, Kolt Loughran, Vicki McPherson, Bob Mente, Bill
Moran, James Moran, Richard Neese, Michael P. O'Connor, James O'Kane,
David Ostroske, Max Putas, Ted Rodgers, Brian Sammon, Mark Sikora,
Greg Simkins, David Smith, Chris Teodorski, John Vukovic, Patrick
Wagstrom, and Frank Walder.
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VOTING PROCEDURE
EXAMPLE BALLOTS
RESULTS OF THE EXAMPLE BALLOTS
The explanation of the voting process hasn't changed, and this example
is really good, so let's keep them as is.

CANDIDATES
Use the list of candidates in the order as it appears on the ballot.
Or, randomize the order first.

STATEMENTS FROM CANDIDATES
Leave space here for this year's candidate statements.
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In addition to all this, the Dues page
<http://www.wplug.org/membership/dues> must be updated to explain the
$20 dues (as of September 16, 2006), and that all other members who
paid before the 16th are still members until their year is up (so they
don't think, "woah, I only paid $5, now it's $20, does that mean I
can't vote?"). Also, remove the pizza-coupon language, and update the
last paragraph to replace the reference to CMU. We still use
affordable (if not free) meeting spaces in the future so our costs
will still be low.

Also update the Membership page <http://www.wplug.org/membership/> so
that the mailing address fields (except Street Address 2) is required.
I don't know if you can change the back-end code to enforce this, but
for now, label those fields as required.

Those are all the changes that I see that need to be made. If anyone
would like more detail, please let me know.

-- 
David Ostroske <eksortso at gmail.com>