Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 01:37:09 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>,
        WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Concerning the draft of WSFA minutes; WSFA lists
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

At 08:13 PM 11/18/2005 -0500, Elspeth Kovar wrote:

> From the draft of the minutes posted to "wsfa-forum":
>
>"Rich Lynch's motion was seconded, and put to a vote. There were nine in
>favor, no opposed, and nine abstentions."
>
>This very much sounds as if there was a motion, it was seconded, and it was
>voted upon.  My question is what the motion was that nine people voted for.

That's one of the comments I had to the minutes too...one of the
non-name-related substantive (non-typo) ones.

Another, slightly less murky one, is in the "Previous Minutes:" section,
where is says  in the first sentence, "After a brief recap, he asked the
Secretary..."  It might not be clear who "he" is.  I believe it's Sam
Lubell, but to learn that you have to go back to the previous section's
last sentence.  I'd change "he" to "Sam" or "Sam Lubell" to remove all
ambiguity.

In Old Business, where it's talking about the Secretary, Steve Smith and
Barry Newton forming a committee to handle the web platform and to decide
how to handle the list issues, I remember the task as investigating list
options, not web site and list.  The Secretary seems to have the task of
dealing with the web site (or appointing a volunteer to do it), and I don't
recall Steve or Barry volunteering for web duty...just list server
research.  I may have misheard or misremembered, but that's how I recall
things.

All the other corrections I have are either name errors that have most
likely already been pointed out, or simple typos and editing errors
(leftovers from prior wording versions).  I can detail what I noticed if
anyone cares.

-- Mike B.
--

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with the advantages; and above all, he does not adopt the slavish custom of
following what in other governments are called 'leaders'."

                -- Tom Paine, _Rights of Man_ (1791-92)