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Thursday 30 November 2000:
In the first Board-L message posted in over a week, Tina Vickery reminds
her colleagues that Motion 00-36 "requires the seating of a Standing
Election Committee." She notes that the first step is publishing a call
for volunteers to all the various project mailing lists and says "Let's
get this very important email written and sent to the Project!" [The
Election Study Committee report, which she references, is online at:
http://www.timmweb.pair.com/esc/report.html. Motion 00-36 passed on Nov
16; the Board has about two weeks to act if they are going to meet the 30
day deadlinie recommended in the report.]
[There is no activity on the outstanding motion made by Ken Short to apply
for a collective service mark.]
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Monday 4 December 2000:
[There has been no Board-L traffic since November 30]
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Finally a Bride Corner: After several years of being an also ran,
RootsWeb.com, Inc has finally managed to win Dick Eastman's annual Best
Genealogy Site on the Web contest. Interestingly enough, it only managed
to do this after its original proprietors were unceremoniously shown the
door and the company was bought by MyFamily.com which, in one of those
little coincidences we find so interesting, happens to sponsor Mr.
Eastman's newsletter [hey, it never hurts to keep things in the family].
Mr. Eastman doesn't tell us who took place and show [as I recall he has in
the past] and gives no idea of how many votes were actually cast. He
does indicate that Root$web got 10% of the votes cast, with an additional
15% if one adds in all sites with "www.rootsweb.com" in the URL [all of
the additional sites he lists are actually USGW or WGW sites; if USGW and
WGW were allowed to use their own URLs in their site addresses, this
little bit of confusion wouldn't happen]. Anyways, a hearty congrats to
all the volunteers and unpaid contributors who make Root$web what it is;
they are the ones who deserve the honors attendant upon this award.
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Monday 4 December 2000:
Tim Stowell asks Tina Vickery if she is volunteering to write to message
to the project regarding the Election Committee [yes, a full _five_ days
after Tina asked about it, our Glorious Leader finally gets around to
responding to her].
Tina says she would be happy to write the email and tells Tim to "stay
tuned".
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Tuesday 5 December 2000:
Maggie Stewart says she thought that Motion 00-36 left the drafting of
volunteers up to the Election Study Committee and "the AB had no more say
in what was done or any further actions that needed to be taken." [you
wonder sometimes if they actually read anything they are voting on.]
Tina Vickery reminds Maggie that the ESC report requires the Board to
participate in the establishment of the standing Election Committee, and
tells her that she is currently working on the email that will be sent to
the project membership. Tim Stowell thanks Tina for her work on this.
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Wednesday 6 December 2000:
Tina Vickery posts a draft email for soliciting volunteers for the
standing Election Committee. It reads:
"The USGenWeb Project Advisory Board is recruiting volunteers to serve on
the Standing Election Committee! This subCommittee will operate year round
and members serve a two-year term. Representative duties of the
subCommittee include conducting all national level elections; maintaining
current voter rolls; and researching voter software. The Advisory Board,
along with members of the Election Study Committee, encourage all USGenWeb
Project members to visit http://www.timmweb.pair.com/esc/report.html for
more details of this very important committee within the USGenWeb Project.
If you are interested in participating on this committee, please contact
Tim Stowell tstowell@chattanooga.net, National Coordinator AND Holly Timm,
Representative at Large hollyft@bright.net by December 22, 2000."
Pam Reid approves of the message and thanks Tina for her effort. She also
notes that she should probably post the Election Study Committee report on
the USGenWeb national page and asks if anyone objects to that.
Tina says she has no objection and thinks "that an acknowledgment of a job
"well done" be extended to the Election Study Committee. They all deserve
congratulations on a hard job well done!"
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"Agitators are a set of interfering meddling people, who come down to some
perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent
amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely
necessary."
---Oscar Wilde
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Sunday 10 December 2000:
Tim Stowell _finally_ gets around to giving a motion number [00-39] to Ken
Short's motion to apply for a service mark for "USGenWeb". He says the
Board can discuss later how to implement the motion since "every decision
that goes into such an application need not be written into the motion to
do an application." He also says that because the motion has been
discussed for several weeks, "voting will commence on this motion
immediately, unless someone has a strong objection on doing so."
Thus far, one Board member has voted yes on motion 00-39.
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Help Wanted Corner: Pam Reid has posted an announcement regarding the
availability of the Board Secretary position on the USGenWeb home pages.
If you are interested, the announcement is here:
http://www.usgenweb.com/secretary.html; contact Tim Stowell to apply.
Scratching Each Other's Back Corner: Root$web is now publishing some new
UCE called the "RootsWeb Bulletin"; number 1 went out December 9. It
apparently will go "occasionally" to all those who get its other UCE: the
RW Review and Missing Links. The first issue of the RW Bull is nothing
but a page long commercial for Ancestry.com. [We still have a hard time
believing it when we see Root$web slavishly shilling for their former
sworn enemy, but there you have it.]
Giving Gifts Corner: Speaking of Ancestry.com, they are doing their annual
impression of a genealogy Santa and have opened all their databases,
including Images Online, for free access through December 21. They've
also heavily discounted their memberships for those who sign up during
this holiday season. I've already gone to the well and drank deeply and
recommend that you all do the same. A merry holiday thanks to Ancestry
for their yearly generosity!
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about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by
discussion."
---Will Durant
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