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 <[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] > >
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