Re: Fwd: Bylaws v0.20
Steve Litt <[email protected]>
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You should have seen how those bylaws were made. We started with the bylaws from a guy's homeowners association, and ten of us (the ELUG Board of Directors) hammered them out week after week. We were sooooooo serious about it. It was Jan-March 1999 -- the height of the Linux boom. ELUG's founder made a mistake that could have spelled legal trouble, and in response we changed the name from ELUG to LEAP and disavowed any connection to ELUG. However, we didn't tell the ELUG rank and file about the name change. Directors dropped out, but the "faithful five" continued to meet and hammer things out -- Phil Barnett, Jack Beglinger, John Deboard, Chris Young, and Steve Litt. By the way, the election meeting quorum rules, which in the past caused LEAP much indigestion, was my idea. However, my quorum rules were designed to prevent a takeover by a rogue fringe element within the club, something we were very worried about in 1999. In June 1999 we finished the bylaws. In something that (in hindsight) was reminiscent of a banana republic takeover, we started the June 1999 meeting as ELUG, and ended it as LEAP. The initial LEAP officers were: President: Chris Young Vice President: Steve Litt Secretary: Phil Barnett Treasurer: John Deboard We almost got away with it, but a couple hotheads started a huge flamefest that turned into a civil war, a new ELUG formed to oppose LEAP, and for two years the two LUGs sniped at each other, till finally LEAP prevailed and ELUG died. The way I see it, those bylaws must be pretty good, because they saw LEAP through the civil war, through the good times, and then through the years of apathy every LUG has faced recently. SteveT On Tuesday, August 02, 2011 06:23:50 PM super PJ wrote: > You forgot the part about the development, design, manufacture or > production of nuclear, missiles, or chemical or biological > weapons. > > On Aug 2, 2011 5:42 PM, "Steve Litt" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tuesday, August 02, 2011 12:23:30 AM Art Wildman wrote: > >> -------- Original Message -------- > >> Subject: Bylaws v0.20 > >> Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 17:35:32 -0400 > >> From: Patrick Martin <sheryle-17JNTD7cny/[email protected]> > >> To: [email protected] > > > > I knew that looked familiar: > > > > http://leap-cf.org/article.php3?article=bylaws > > > > SteveT > > > > Steve Litt > > Author: The Key to Everyday Excellence > > http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/key_excellence.htm > > Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > ---- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 > > RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml > > Unsubscribe [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]