[wplug-plan] Umm.. we have a meeting saturday

David Tessitor dttessitor at home.com
Tue Feb 27 00:18:30 EST 2001


The 10am-2pm GUM is typically for technical matters and socializing, and it
would be good to have something to discuss.  If nobody has anything to present
and somebody has a computer upon which they would like to try Win4Lin, I can
bring in a comp copy that I received from Netraverse and install a demo for
them.  I'll need to know before hand what distro or kernel is involved in order
to prep.

To preserve the character of the GUM, the 2pm member meetings have been set
aside for organizational matters.  In the early days of WPLUG, plan-list
subscribers met for an hour or so before the GUM to discuss organizational
matters.  But since it hadn't met for nearly a year and a half, last fall
several members started the organizational meetings following the GUM (some
people aren't early risers and it was considered better to not have it time
constrained).

Open to all members, the primary purpose of these meetings has been to
eventually craft an appropriate structure for WPLUG.  In the first three
meetings we have looked at 1) what people would like to see WPLUG do in the
future, 2) what it's structure and decision process has been to date, and 3)
what people like or dislike about WPLUG.  This Saturday's 2pm meeting is indeed
an appropriate time to begin considering some specifics such as bylaws.

If anybody would like to propose any other items for the agenda, it would help
immensely to post them to the list first -- the earlier, the better -- even
though they can be added at any point up until the agenda is approved at the
beginning of the meeting.

Also, if anybody desires to be the moderator or is willing to accept the job of
secretary and record the minutes, you can either post to the list or email me
directly.  I've been doing both just to help get the ball rolling, but it is
better if the jobs are split and handled by more than one person. -- Putting
all the work on one individual until that person burns out (ala MarketPro
Shows, etc.) has, unfortunately, been an all too common practice and it's one
of the problems WPLUG needs to overcome.

Dave

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Zach Paine wrote:

> I move to create a topic :)  I think the first question is are we going to:
>
> 1. Begin a re-write of bylaws
> 2. Have a presentation and a usual meeting and save bylaw mangling for
> later?
>
> If we start to write the bylaws, I think we would have to commit to it
> being a 2-meeting process, so those who cannot attend the meeting can still
> participate between meetings on this mailing list.




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