Re: Fwd: Bylaws v0.20

not currently

On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 11:09 PM, Chad Bailey <[email protected]>wrote:

> 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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