[wplug] [wplug-announce] GUM "Open Source Use of Weblogs" and Nominations Oct 15 10am-2pm

[Vance Kochenderfer]

Michael H. Semcheski wrote:
> "During the first 56 days (8 weeks) of membership, Members are not
> permitted to vote, be nominated for office, or hold a position on the
> Board."
> 
> Is this the case?  I saw a post earlier that said something like "We
> have a chicken and egg problem where the membership can't decide what
> the dues are unless there are paying members with voting rights..."

Confucius say: "Rules are rules, except when there are exceptions."
Read the proviso <http://www.wplug.org/pages/proviso> to see the
exceptions, like this:

   3.2 Voting Rights
   The first paragraph of this section shall not apply to any Member
   admitted prior to November 1, 2005.

Any member admitted before 1 Nov gets to vote right away.  Members who
join later have to wait two months before they can vote.  The idea is
to prevent, say, 500 Microsoft employees from joining the day of an
election and taking over the group.

> I've heard mention of an old board.

The existing (might not be nice to call them "old") board consists of
Beth Lynn Eicher and Mark Dalrymple.

> I've heard mention of a new board.

These are the five people to be elected on November 5.  Once they
take office, the stuff in the proviso pretty much goes away and WPLUG
operates solely under the new bylaws.

Vance Kochenderfer        |  "Get me out of these ropes and into a
vkochend at nyx.net          |   good belt of Scotch"    -Nick Danger