Organization Poll on the KCLUG Forums

[Billy Crook]

There is no question. The LUG needs formal organization. First and
foremost, There needs to be an official 'position' of authority, and a
fallback person for when the primary is unavailable.

Those position should be elected yearly or every 6 months. Any
thoughts on whether the election should he held:

At the meeting

      - filters out people less effected, or who don't feel strongly
enough to show up
      - ballots can be 'issued' one per person
      - straight forward to tally
      - can have a secret ballot



On the forums

      - includes everyone, bringing along people who might not even be effected
      - vulnerable to multiple votes by anyone
      - a simple poll (like this one) can do the tallying)
      - basically secret ballot (in the hands of the server admin)



On the mailing list

      - includes everyone, bringing along people who might not even be effected
      - vulnerable to multiple votes by anyone
      - chaotic, difficult to tally
      - no secret ballot



I think voting in person at a meeting is the best route. What are your thoughts?

Once chosen, the leader should be responsible for:

      - LUG website
      - Mailinglist
      - Planning for LUG growth
      - Scheduling actual topics, or goals for the LUG
      - Events



Any volunteers?

Also on the topic of organization. I think two new mailinglists should
be created. A Linux-only list, moderated by the elected leader or his
delegates, and an unmoderated, everything else list. If people want to
partake in off topic discussion, they should be able to, with those
who want to hear it. After the two new ones are live, no new members
should go on the old ones, and it should eventually be phased out, as
people transition over.

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Steven Hildreth <sphildreth at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Please check out and vote;
>
> http://www.kclug.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=33
>
> It would be great to get feedback on the forum thread, for future reference
> for when this question comes up again (which it does from time to time with
> people who drop in see what a cluckerfest KCLUG is and never return).
>
> Regards,
> Steven