[wplug-plan] Re: Fixing the bylaws

[Zach Paine]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 19:54:44 David Ostroske wrote:
> 
> Agreed! No more confusion. But this isn't something we can just "hammer
> out"
> without some preparation.

It will probably take an extensive period of time before we have a copy of
the bylaws sitting on the webpage.

> Adopting new bylaws may work out easier if a few people cobbled together
> some
> "demo" bylaws before the meeting. Then we could debate the common points
> as we
> encounter them before submitting them to a vote.
> 
> Or maybe we could hammer it out. Dang, this sort of thing would be
> perfect for a
> web vote! We could put up a site with the sections of the bylaws we would
> require, let people submit their own language for each section, then put
> each
> section up for a vote! Then, we could iron out any conflicts at the next
> plan
> meeting, at which we would put the final document up for a final vote!
> 
> Does this sound good to anyone?

I would like to do something like this.  Perhaps what evand suggested.
Employ the kuro5hin.org engine.  For those who don't hang out on
kuro5hin.org, it works like this:

1. People submit 'articles'.  In our case items for the bylaws.  
2. Everyone is a moderator.  People vote up articles they like.  Once they
reach a certain vote tally, they are posted a page where we can see what
has been approved by the group.

It might be better to write something new.. I'm not sure.

Once we have a page listing what people want, we can have a meeting where
we kind of organize them on paper so they make sense.

I suggest that the plan meeting on saturday should be used to discuss the
process for creating the bylaws.

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