Sep 27-30 1999

From merope@Radix.Net Mon Sep 27 13:20:23 1999

Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:20:21 -0400 (EDT)

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Making a silk purse out of a sow's ear...its Your Daily Board Show!

*warning* contains editorial content. Read at your own risk!

Saturday 25 September 1999:

The NC declares motion 99-25-B passed with 12 ayes, 3 not voting, and 1

empty position, and welcomes Ed Book to the Board mailing lists as the new

Board Secretary.

Several Board members join Tim in welcoming Ed to the lists.

Bad Day at Black Rock Corner: MI State Coordinator Joan Brausch has

resigned, effective October 15. On the same day that Joan tendered her

resignation, another 10 counties left the MIGenWeb for the American Local

History Network.

Make It So Corner: Mary Ann Hetrick has been declared the "unanimous

choice" of Colorado CCs and is the new SC for COGenWeb. According to the

Election Chair, "As each person eligible to vote had seven days in which

to submit a nomination and they chose not to, I herewith declare Mary Ann

Hetrick the unanimous choice of the Colorado County Coordinators and

declare her elected unanimously." [Nice trick, getting yourself declared

the unanimous choice of the electorate without actually having a vote.]

"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord make

my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it."

---Voltaire, 1767, Letter to M. Damilaville

This has been your Daily Board Show.

-Teresa Lindquist

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From merope@Radix.Net Wed Sep 29 06:33:40 1999

Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 06:33:39 -0400 (EDT)

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Don't make me put on my high heels and come down there...its Your Daily

Board Show!

*warning* contains editorial content. Read at your own risk!

Sunday 26 September 1999:

Gloria Mayfield welcomes Ed Book to the Board lists.

Monday 27 September 1999:

There is no Board-L traffic on this date.

Changing Minds Corner: MIGW SC Joan Brausch, who resigned on Sunday, has

indicated she will consider staying on as SC, saying, "IF we could

work it so that the work gets spread out so no one person has to work

their tails off at the state site, IF we can reimagine the SC position

(within the guidelines of USGW and MIGW) then I will reconsider staying on

as SC." MIGW CC Jen Godwin is suggesting an amendment to the bylaws [MIGW

or USGW is not clear] that would prevent any one CC from taking on more

than three counties, and Maggie "Copyright" Zimmerman suggests also

adding wording to the effect that anything submitted to a county page by

anyone other than the CC should stay with the project when the CC leaves.

"We cannot trust some people who are nonconformist. The organization

cannot trust the individual, the individual must trust the organization."

---Ray Kroc [former developer/owner of McDonald's]

This has been your Daily Board Show.

-Teresa Lindquist

merope@radix.net

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From merope@Radix.Net Thu Sep 30 15:33:21 1999

Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 15:33:18 -0400 (EDT)

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Not just another pretty face...its Your Daily Board Show!

*warning* contains editorial content. Read at your own risk!

Tuesday 28 September 1999:

There is no Board-L traffic on this date.

Write It Right Corner: Board member Terri Pettit posted a letter to the

State Coordinators yesterday noting that many people are writing with

"comments, complaints, questions, etc. to their individual Advisory Board

representatives asking for some official action, opinion, etc." but they

do not cc the entire Board. Terri notes that "it is usually impossible for

a rep to make any official response without first discussing the issue or

request with the rest of the Advisory Board members. Since we try to

follow standard email etiquette of not forwarding messages without the

permission of the sender, this introduces a significant delay in making

any response, where the Board member sends a message to the person who

contacted them, asking for permission to forward their email to the rest

of the Board, and waits for a reply." She notes that if people could

include the permission to forward their mail to the Board it could cut an

entire day off the response time. She asks the SCs to forward her message

to the state lists, and adds this postscript:

"It is our policy to keep specific details of complaints on the private

BOARD-EXEC-L, to protect the privacy and security of the project members

involved, while discussing general issues, policy guidelines, and

procedures on the archived list BOARD-L, searchable at

http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl So if you want your

message forwarded to BOARD-L, be aware that we may bleep out names,

states, and other identifying details."

"He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human

institution which rejects progress is the cemetery."

---Harold Wilson

This has been your Daily Board Show.

-Teresa Lindquist

merope@radix.net

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