[vox] The future of LUGOD

[Timothy D Thatcher]

Well, heck. I've only been coming out to play with LUGOD for a couple of
years, but I've had a real blast this entire time, I've met a lot of
interesting, smart people and made new friends, learned a ton, and felt
like a part of a local community from the first day I showed up on IRC to
my tenure as treasurer this year. Bill, whether you choose to bow out this
year or next, I'm eternally grateful to you for all of your hard work, good
attitude, and the service you've provided. Saying "thank you for doing a
really cool thing" doesn't seem like nearly as much as you deserve in
return.

I'm not of a mind to give up on LUGOD, but I do think Brian is right about
one thing: if Glorious Leader Bill is taking off, he deserves a real
going-away party.

Whether or not we get a speaker next week, I hope maybe some folks are
willing to come by and talk about it to share their thoughts on LUGOD's
future...


Tim

On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 12:38 PM, Bill Kendrick <nbs at sonic.net> wrote:

>
> Right now it's LUGOD club officer election season, and we're
> accepting nominations for our four elected positions.
>
> I'm strongly considering NOT running for any positions this
> time around, as it's looking very likely that I'll be moving
> out of the area next summer.
>
> I'm concerned, since I take it upon myself to do a lot of
> work for the club, that I'll leave a vacuum in my place
> which could adversely affect the club.  We obviously don't
> want that!
>
> Furthermore, even now, I've not had as much time (or in some
> cases, not had the energy or inclincation) to do some of the
> things necessary for the club.  I've been terrible at putting
> meeting minutes up on the website (and have been bad at
> asking for help), and have been struggling to work on finding
> guest speakers.  Doing that kind of stuff for a good portion
> of the past ~16-17 years has admittedly gotten a bit tiresome.
>
> The club needs help right now, so I encourage people to please
> consider running for officer positions.  It'd be revitalizing,
> I think, to actually hold elections _with voting_ for once.
>
> So many past elections have been situations where only one
> person was nominated for each position (if that!), so we've
> accepted them after a simple 'call for objections' at the
> meeting.
>
> LUGOD is a 501(c)7 non-profit, with a somewhat active
> membership, and I think we can thrive if energetic people
> take part in running the club again.
>
> That's my 2c, (and, uh, I guess a kind of warning? :) )
>
>
> With that, I need to hurry up and find a guest speaker/topic
> for next week's meeting! :^(
>
> --
> -bill!
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