[Penguicon-Concom] Bylaws Committee officially forming.

[ssanfratello at tm.net]

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>From    : Tracy
Worcester[mailto:tracy.worcester at gmail.com]
Sent    : 8/4/2006 10:09:21 AM
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Subject : RE: [Penguicon-Concom] Bylaws Committee
officially forming.

 Hello, folks!

The time of the gathering is at hand.

No, we're not going to chop each other's head off
with swords.  
So you say... but I wouldn't give any warning, either...

-S

Instead, we
are going to create the shape of PenguiCon's future.
 We're going to create
a full version of the bylaws, and likely a mission
statement as well.

We have to figure out what we want the convention to
be, and then make a
structure to support that vision.  This is going to
be more than a picky
word festival.  We've got to decide what should be in
the legally binding
document (the bylaws) and what should simply be
customary practice.  And
once we've figured out what we want the bylaws to do
for us, we have to
figure out how to say it, and put checks and balances
in to make sure it
works for the benefit of the convention and
community, consistently.

Even if you've volunteered to me before, please once
again let me know
you're interested.  It is not required that you be on
the Board or a member
of the con comm to be on the bylaws committee.  I
imagine we will be doing
much of our work online with occasional face to face
meetings, but I can be
swayed in the direction of either more online or more
in person, depending
on the preferences and needs of my volunteers.

While it may not be obvious, this is one of the more
important tasks of an
early convention.  Come, help me make it that hard
combination of flexible,
tough, and useful, that bylaws really should be.

...Tracy "La Penguinista" Worcester
Co-Founder and Board President