[wplug-plan] Organizational considerations

[David Tessitor]

OK, so we have two people who think that some members should be excluded from the
decision process about the group's matters; that having organizational meetings
open to the entire membership is a bad idea; and that a unanimous vote by a
larger group of members than have ever taken part in these discussions on the
list is not valid.

Twelve members attended each of the first two meetings and 18 were at the third.
Each meeting had at least some different members from the others (16 of the last
were not at the first two), and at each meeting the idea of having the meetings
and continuing them was agreed to without dissent.  Nobody has sought to exclude
the list from the discussion process, nor has anybody proposed that the list
should be excluded at any time in the future.  The list will continue to be a
valuable part of the discussion and consideration process, and nobody has said
otherwise.  Still, there are those who have adamantly insisted that the ability
to participate in real time, real space meetings should be denied to those
members who wish instead to be involved through such meetings.

It doesn't seem to make any difference how much these matters are pointed out, so
I don't expect to have anybody change their mind.  But somebody has to answer
them.

Dave

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Jonathan Billings wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Zach Paine wrote:
>
> >
> > On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 20:57:56 David Tessitor wrote:
> > >    * The Member Organizational Meetings (regularly scheduled
> > >      for 2 pm after the GUM's) were started explicitly to deal
> > >      with organizational matters.
> >
> > I don't like these.  There is a structure in place for discussing wplug
> > administration and organization.  If you wanted to discuss organization,
> > you should have organized a plan meeting.  You've generated a good bit of
> > resentment because of the psuedo-official meetings.
>
> I concur.  While I appreciate your effort, I think that you should
> cooperate with the planning group to decide topics, and manage the
> decisions from such meetings.  Get someone to record notes and minutes,
> which can be submitted, and anyone can work with them.  Otherwise, you
> really aren't doing anything WPLUG related.
>