Thanks for the vote of support, everyone. We've (the executive) been working hard to navigate the fine line between maintaining the membership's involvement while not getting too slowed down by that same process (Collaboration and expediency usually work in opposition to one another).
I think we've managed to dodge a few pot-holes by putting our collective heads together and we're certainly learning from what we're doing. Jarrod and Kari are really real troopers here and deserve a lot of credit in making this happen. I'd like to publicly thank both of you for your hard work. Marcel > -----Original Message----- > From: Curtis Sloan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 11:40 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: (clug-talk) Important Notices > > > Keep up the good work, Jarrod, and all on the Executive. I > appreciate your > efforts and I, for one, believe that they will eventually > come to fruition. > > These kind of iterative modifications are usually great > learning experiences > in hindsight, and hopefully historically beneficial for all (when > documented) ;-) -- they just suck during the process. :-) > Hang in there. > :-D > > FWIT (for what it's worth), > Curtis. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jarrod Major [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 11:16 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: (clug-talk) Important Notices > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday 19 March 2003 10:07 am, you wrote: > > Thanks Shawn for the words of encouragement. I am an optimist > and when they > came back I was quite despondent. Part of the problem was the > past Executive > > tried to push this through before the end of their term. I > was the one who > was doing all the pushing by the way. I saw it as a final > push to fulfil our > > mandate, have it as a kind of legacy of that Executive. While > it would have > been grand if it had gone through, I have resigned myself to > the fact that > it > did not. > > However, I along with the other Executive believe now that > this happened for > a > good reason. We are taking this opportunity to reformat the > document to > include section numbers. This will make it a snap to make any future > amendments. This Executive and hopefully all future > Executives will thank us > > for this. Most of the other stuff is just reorganizational in nature. > > I am kicking myself now for not looking at the registration > papers sooner. > The > Alberta Government provided a very complete set of Example > Bylaws that you > would just have to fill a few things out and be done. We based ours on > CLUE's > Bylaws and Mission statement. The big difference is that CLUE is a > Corporation while we are going to be a Society. A lot of > legal stuff they > had > in their Bylaws doesn't apply to us. We tried to make it > apply and that was > our mistake. > > We trimmed a lot of this legalese in favour of the more > simplified language > in > the example Bylaws. I believe that the new proposed Bylaws > are much more > readable. I will get something up for you all to see tonight. > > <snip> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This communication is intended for the use of the recipient to which it is addressed, and may contain confidential, personal, and or privileged information. Please contact us immediately if you are not the intended recipient of this communication, and do not copy, distribute, or take action relying on it. Any communication received in error, or subsequent reply, should be deleted or destroyed.
