[wplug-plan] Making the big changes

[John Lewis]

If you developed the original bylaws can you inform us line by line the 
justifications of the bylaws so we don't accidentally modify it in a way 
that will scare you even further away.

Why don't we want radical change in WPLUG? Our software radically 
changes every six months for most of us, and the rest of us, it changes 
at our whims.

Specifically I don't understand why our bylaws limit the everything that 
enables the group to exist in the first place. It limits the use of the 
Internet, the very thing that allowed Linux to be developed and reach 
critical mass. I doubt even a 386 BSD users group would have did 
something like that in 2006.

What everybody wants to know are the good reasons, so please grant us 
your wisdom.

On 12/06/2012 05:45 PM, Michael O'Connor wrote:
> Be careful on changing bylaws, it should not be taken lightly, I was on
> the comity that helped put the original ones together (I think that was
> back in 2006) and it is not something we took lightly (took us 6 months if
> I remember right, of weekly meetings to get the bylaws written)
>
> I am not say not to change them, but the bylaws that are in place are set
> to prevent change from happening to fast, for good reason, you don't want
> a hostel take over of the group by outsiders, or to change the group to
> radicly to fast that could scare people away from the group.
>
> While I may not be a current member (sadly I don't live in Pittsburgh
> anymore) I do still care about the group deeply.