[LUAU] NOMINATIONS

[ztaylor at aloha.net]

Rob,
        I think you made some very valid points. (And I just wanted to post
from Netscape on NT(I'm at work, what can I say?))

Rob Braun wrote:
> 
> I nominate Hank the angry dr...  Oh, wrong poll.
> What about the CEO, CTO, CFO, and whatever other damn positions
> there are people can think of?
> I think there should be a bylaw that says everyone on the luau
> list should have to make postings from MS Outlook
> (God[aka root(and one of your passwords ;)] knows 90% of the list
> already does).
> 
> In case you havn't gotten my drift already (subtle as it is),
> this elections thing has gotten way out of hand.  I was all for
> someone stepping up to replace Chris if he wanted to step down.
> The job of running a group like this is rough, thankless, and you
> can never do the job as  well as someone else says they can.
> This is nothing new to the experienced sysadmin though. =)
> 
> I applaud the people that have done work on the web voting system
> and the online membership registration.  This is the kind of thing that
> is great, they see something that might need doing, and they just do it
> without nominations or elections or vast amounts of talk on the list.
> This is the kind of attitude that has built up many organizations,
> and the "beta-tester" mentality of blabbing away without actually
> accomplishing anything is what brings these organizations down.
> I shouldn't be too surprised, because this is basically what is happening
> with the linux community as a whole, but it is somewhat disheartening
> to see it happening here.  In the past we have been able to swat
> these things aside and continue on, but I don't konw how much longer
> it will last.
> 
> I would suggest that members of the group should ask themselves what
> it is they would like the group to accomplish, then take a look at
> the mailing list traffic over the last 2 weeks, and ask themselves if
> what they see is closer to or farther away from what the list was like
> two months ago.
> 
> Rob
> 
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