Re: [OSCOM] Pressing the reset button on membership

Marc Laporte <[email protected]> Tue, 04 Jul 2006 10:35:19 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.cms.oscom
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Count me in!

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Paul Everitt wrote:

>A couple of months ago, I volunteered to spend some time contributing  
>towards improving the membership:
>
>"Meaning, get everybody in that wants in and everybody out that wants  
>out.  The goal is to get enough mass in the existing entity to have  
>legal votes on any changes."
>
>Just to be clear, this small first step isn't intended to be  
>everything-that's-needed.  The primary goal is to get enough of an  
>active membership to actually vote on things...such as a new board,  
>bylaw changes, whatever.
>
>This happens to be a week where I can do such a thing.  After next  
>Monday, I'm vaporized until mid-August.
>
>Thus, I propose something like the following:
>
>***  Note: This is only intended as a first-step, stopgap measure!!  ***
>
>1) Anybody that has participated in the OSCOM list in the last year,  
>and would like to be a member, can ping me.
>
>2) I'll be in IRC, in #oscom, as much as possible today through Monday.
>
>3) I'm a member so I can do the recommendation thing as described in  
>the bylaws.  I can also bring the names to the board.
>
>4) Finally, I'll email the current list of members and see if they  
>are interested in remaining active.
>
>--Paul
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