[wplug-plan] The mechanism for proposing changes to the bylaws

[John Lewis]

Seems like a lot of bureaucracy for a group of 17 people. Especially 
when I don't get my own problems solved at the InstallFest. It is a good 
thing I taught myself the skills necessary to fix my own problems. I 
solved the problem I had with mounting flash drives within the last 
hour, and I solved the problem with HackPittsburgh's shop laptop 
yesterday, and I probably will get Debian installed on my server tomorrow.

I honestly don't see what I have to gain from suffering through your 
bureaucracy and protectionism. Someone please remind me what I am 
getting out of this.

On 12/08/2012 09:34 PM, Pat Barron wrote:
> On 12/8/2012 9:00 PM, John Lewis wrote:
>> Well I propose a change to the bylaws.
>
> Without getting into whether this specific proposal is a good idea or
> not, I will say that it's a decent example of how one would propose a
> change the the bylaws (and even if not advanced on it's own, could form
> an example of how any future bylaws "update" proposals could look) -
> point out what you want to change, point out what you want to change it
> to, and give some kind of rationale as to why.  Because the membership
> are the only ones who can change the bylaws, and you need to show them
> that your proposal is a good idea.
>
> It's any member's right to propose an amendment to the bylaws, but
> remember that sending a note to a mailing list doesn't create a "valid"
> proposal.  Section 10 of the bylaws (along with the Special Rule of
> Order regarding Absentee Balloting) describes how it's done.
>
> --Pat.
>
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