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Subject : Re: LUG: Server, funds, purpose

From : Jack Neely <jjneely@ncsu.[redacted]>

Date : Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:03:31 -0500

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On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:27:22AM -0500, Brian Cottingham wrote:
> This 2003 revision is new to me- I only had a 2003 draft in my records!

It may well be a draft. 2003 was a long time ago. :-)

>
> Rewriting our constitution is tricky in the club's present state- with
> little turnover and little expansion I don't know if our community attitude
> is stable enough that a rewrite would still be useful in 1-2 years when the
> current regulars have graduated. Any thoughts on how to deal with this?
> Should we just put the constitution up for overhaul every year?
>

The constitution is purposely difficult to change, and purposely rather
vague. But the group has gone through quite a number of changes over
the past several years. I'm definitely interested in seeing the group
continue.

Jack

> -Brian
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Jack Neely <jjneely@ncsu.[redacted]> wrote:
>
> > Folks,
> >
> > I read over the reddit discussion and I have two points to contribute.
> >
> > The last version of the constitution you have is from 2000. The last
> > version I have is from June 3rd, 2003. I've attached the LaTeX source.
> > The only difference is it seems the Webmaster office was removed.
> >
> > Whatever dicisions are made, I think this would be a most excellent time
> > to incorperate them properly into the constitution and have a document
> > that reflects the group as it is now. Not the group as it was when I
> > was president. ;-)
> >
> > Secondly, have you folks considered donating the funds to the EFF, open
> > source projects, or other institutions that have similar goals to the
> > LUG @ NCSU?
> >
> > Jack
> > --
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> > Linux Czar, OIT Campus Linux Services
> > Office of Information Technology, NC State University
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Jack Neely <jjneely@ncsu.[redacted]>
Linux Czar, OIT Campus Linux Services
Office of Information Technology, NC State University
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