Re: Fwd: Bylaws v0.20

Now for the burning question... is JAXLUG really incorporated? :P

On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Steve Litt <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>> >
>> >
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