September 15, 2009
Subject: NCGenWeb Blues
Byline, Carol Domingo Sanchez
Diane S. is the new SC of NCGenWeb and also the National GC Chairwoman. She has been friendly with Tina. Tina V. (Ms. Archives) was added as a County Coordinator (CC) to the NC-project. The new SC had a vision to transform NCGenWeb into a min-Archives project. With the money from Nola, new server space was obtained. But an act jolted many CCs. Nola secretly incorporated the NCGenWeb Project. This is shocking because the corporation has no members other than the self-appointed officers. The membership of NCGenWeb did not authorize the officers nor the incorporation. The Bylaws state that the leadership must be elected by the membership. The next step in the Project make-over was to impose a secrecy rule (see below). Diane's handling of grievances has garnered the attention of the Advisory Board (AB) of USGenWeb. That normally callous body is known for throwing CCs under the bus. With the declining membership of USGenWeb, some AB members have taken a second look at how they casually dispose of CCs.
From: "Mike & Diane"
Subject: [NCGENWEB] Mailing List and forwarding them along.
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009
Hi all,
It has been brought to my attention by several members of NCGenWeb and by members of the USGenWeb that emails from this list are being forwarded to people outside of the NCGenWeb project.
All county coordinators must subscribe to the NCGENWEB list. This is a closed "announce only" list, and is used for internal communication between the State Coordinator (SC) and all County Coodinators(sic)(CC) and Special Project Volunteers. The state coordinator will subscribe you to this list when you join the project. There is an optional NCGENWEB-DISCUSS mailing list which is also closed to NCGenWeb volunteers only and is used for more casual NCGenWeb discussions. If you read the above paragraph it states these mailing lists are closed and for NCGenWeb volunteers ONLY. I do know who is forwarding the emails to people outside of the NCGenWeb project and I will take further action if this continues. This action can and may result in suspension or termination from the NCGenWeb Project. NCGenWeb emails and discussions are for members of the NCGenWeb Project ONLY
Please adhere to these rules.
Thank you,
Diane
NCGenWeb SC
NCGenWeb CC
NCGenWeb Special Projects
MOGenWeb Special Projects
Several members found the orders of their SC repugnant. The members have not signed a secrecy pledge. Some members resigned. The membership of NCGenWeb is not amused by the attempt to convert it to a mini-Archives project, non-participation in management, non-voting, required transcribing, and a corporation that has no members other than insiders. To calm the crowd, Diane wrote what appeared to be a resignation notice. She sent a 1,714 word email (off list) to the members of NCGenWeb. The anticipation grew as members expected to read, "I resign." She talked about her family, her hard work, her service to humanity, pride, tens-of-thousands of pages of data placed online, which this reporter could not remotely verify, CC resignations, confusion, incorporation, contributors, concerns, logos, web hosting, more pride, responsibility, one-eyed jacks, the sun and the moon, but no resignation.
Diane is a file manager and part of the Archives Project. It would be easy for a person who has compiled virtually nothing to claim she placed 14,999 plus pages online if the Archive pages in her region were added to the measure. Joy or Linda could claim they placed 1,000,000 pages online if the totality of the Archives files were used. Meanwhile, Nola warned that their email list had been hacked, and she warned everyone they were being monitored. (A correct statement? Email lists are easy to crack. Here are a few hacker products: Guide to Hacking 2009, Hacker Training Suite, Digital Cable Hacking CD, Chat System Hacker , The Master Hacker PRO, Hackers Tool Chest PRO, WiFi Wireless Hacking, Password Grabbers, Smart Guide to Hacking, Serials and Reg. Keys Expanded, Special Edition Hackers, BlueTooth Hacking Tools, Internet Detective.) Regardless, Nola or friends have been yelling "alias" in crowed theaters since 1999. Now it's the "hackers" under every bush admonition. A new 'ghoul' is created by a drama queen
Wrapping up:
Let's be generous and assume that Diane S. is very good at transcribing databases and adds one every week. Most transcribers would do well to add one a month; but let us assume she added one a week. The 14,999 plus pages would have taken her 209 years to publish.
About that off list email sent to NC-Project members: Rumor has it that each email contained a unique word that indentified the recipient. That is why it was sent off list. If that email ever popped up in public, the unelected officers could identify the person who allegedly violated the secrecy rule which no one authorized in the first place.
Has a global tipping-point been reached in USGenWeb? A Tomboy can only venture so far out on a limb until it breaks. An uncertainty hangs over USGenWeb. Have they gone too far? Have they reached the point of no return?
Last note: Whois still shows the registration of the previous owner for this web site. It will take 60 to 90 days for Whois to update the new registration parameters.