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Meeting all recommended daily allowances...its Your Daily Board Show!
*warning* contains heaping helpings of editorial content. Read at your
own risk!
Sunday 9 July 2000-Tuesday 11 July 2000:
There was no Board-L traffic on these dates.
Wednesday 12 July 2000-Thursday 13 July 2000:
Ginger Cisewski calls the question on the motion to expedite votes.
Joy Fisher, acting as temp NC, directs the Board Secretary to give the
motion to expedite votes the number 00-21 and open the floor for
discussion. She also explains that GingerC's call of the question was
inappropriate because "the motion had not been formally presented."
Joy asks a question regarding Motion 00-21: "Does this mean that 4 people
can cause the Board by-pass the vote on the call to question and the
discussion period?" and nots that "that a minority of the Board (if they
choose the timing just right), could slip through a motion that is
unpalatable to the majority."
Teri Pettit says that she'd like Motion 00-21 amended "along the lines
suggested by George Waller" in a previously forwarded message or suggests
that it be amended to "fix the ambiguities and the problems that could
allow it to be abused to force a premature vote." She reminds the Board
that the intent of this motion is "to enable some kind of "fast track"
for motions that are very time-dependent, where passing the motion, say,
three days after it is made and seconded is tantamount to failing it.
And that it should take at least a simple majority of the Board to put
a motion on the fast track, but the Chair should not be able to single-
handedly delay a time-critical motion." She notes that she will be
periodically unavailable for the next few weeks and says she "would
consider any amendment as in the email from George Waller to be a
"friendly" amendment not requiring a separate vote."
Joy asks for volunteers to work on amending motion 00-21 and suggests they
call Teri at home in order to "communicate with her to assure that the
spirit of her motion is preserved in the amending process."
Gloria Mayfield asks Tim Stowell if all the voter IDs have been sent and
asks him to resend hers. Joy notifies her that she is forwarding her
message to the Election Committee.
===
Election News: Rich Howland has updated his campaign page:
http://www.wf.net/~richpump/camppage.htm; particularly check out his
explanations of why he has voted as he has during his tenure on the Board.
Some of you will get a good laugh out of his reasons for FOR listing the
-ALL and the regional lists ["because I believe the we should have every
chance at a different opinion that we can get"] but AGAINST the DBS list
["I felt that this list was and is an negative and bias work of one to
slant all information posted there...I don't have a problem with there
being such a list. Just with recommending it to others."] and the CC-L
list ["because that this list was created for CC's that couldn't get along
with on ALL-L. I didn't see any reason to recommend it to new
volunteers."]. We are forced to assume that having "every chance" at "a
different opinion" does not extend equally to all opinions.
Richard Harrison has also updated his campaign page to explain his
new-found opposition to the Recall amendment:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/ArtDept/
A group calling themselves the "No On Recall Amendment Committee" has
posted some reasons to vote "no" on the recall amendment at:
http://members.aol.com/noonrecall2000/ This committee has some
interesting members, two of whom are running for office and who can
therefore be materially affected by the Recall amendment, should it pass.
Share And Share Alike Corner: Phil Beshear and Ron Eason have announced a
new use policy for the CART program. According to the announcement,
"...Phil has agreed to return permission for The Archives Census Project
volunteers to use his program. The CART Program pages can be found at:
http://www.us-census.org/cart/ The Archives Census Project is welcome to
link to this site for their volunteers to download the program. This page
is maintained by Phil Beshear and he is the only one with access to it."
[Note that if you go to this page, it still says the ACP is not allowed to
use the program.]
New Toys Corner: This is from someone who was at the ALA convention in
Chicago this last weekend, "I spoke with the folks at Heritage Quest, and
they told me that they have all the images, but they are experiencing a
few "technical difficulties" that will delay the release of the product
until Fall. They would not tell me any numbers for pricing, but they did
admit that they will be pricing it for libraries first, and then for
individual researchers. They had copies of some of the image enhancements
they had done on the originals, and it looks like something we will all
want to see." Dick Eastman's newsletter also has information on this
upcoming release. The images will be available at
http://www.genealogydocuments.com [this site has been updated since last
week] and will include indexes along with the scanned images. The 1790,
1800 and 1870 indexes are already complete. Heritage Quest also has
announced that it plans to use "sticky note" technology in order to allow
visitors to attach comments, questions, corrections, etc. to the scans and
index in order to make the site an interactive community.
Ancestry.com has also announced its intention to post scans of the entire
US Federal Census as part of its new "Images Online" feature. Although
the announcement that Ancestry will post the scans came independently of
Heritage Quests', Heritage Quest is owned by Sierra, which is a "strategic
partner" of Ancestry's parent corporation, MyFamily.com. Its a cozy
little world out there, isn't it?
===
"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish
the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost."
---John Quincy Adams
This has been your Daily Board Show.
-Teresa Lindquist
merope@radix.net
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Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 08:39:47 -0400 (EDT)
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Thursday 13 July 2000:
Joy Fisher notes that Teri Pettit "has acknowledged that Motion 00-21
needs to be amended, but that she will be unavailable to take part in the
amending process." Joy asked for volunteers for the amending process but
has not heard from anyone on this. She says "Therefore, as a Board
member, I move that we lay Motion 00-21 on the table until such time as
Teri or a volunteer steps forward to amend the motion." [As Acting NC,
she can't do this, although she can "entertain motions" from other
members. Of course, on this Board, you can have your cake and eat it too
<g>]
Friday 14 July 2000:
Joy notes that she has not received a second on her motion to table Motion
00-21 and if no second is made, the Board will shortly need to vote on the
motion as originally written. Since she will be away for a week, Joy
hands the gavel to Barbara Dore, who will be acting NC until either Joy or
Tim returns.
===
Lord Save Us Corner: _Rootslady_ as NC??!
Breakdown Palace Corner: Doc Schneider informed the Archives staff
yesterday that the nationwide Archives search engine is "out of order".
According to Doc, Root$web "ran out of space on our searches boxen.. so we
had to kill htdig on there...it was corrupted last night." They are
working on replacing the busted server and will let everyone know when its
fixed. As of this writing, the search engine is still down for the count.
[Perhaps someone should get on the phone to the new corporate
sugar-daddy?] The statewide search engine still works, however.
Other People's Money Corner: Nearly two weeks after the sell-out to
MyFamily.com was announced, Root$web has finally changed its sponsorship
page to reflect that it is no longer accepting cash donations
[http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html] MyFamily.com,
through Root$web, will still however be willing to accept your donated
data.
Correction Corner: We messed up and published an incorrect URL for the
upcoming home of the online census scans. The correct URL is
http://www.genealogydatabase.com/
===
"Free thought, necessarily involving freedom of speech & press, I may
tersely define thus: no opinion a law -- no opinion a crime."
---Alexander Berkman
This has been your Daily Board Show.
-Teresa Lindquist
merope@radix.net
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