Since this is to be a soul searching and cleansing then maybe there needs to
be a little extra light placed here. Because your answers do not completely
tell the story either.
He is not the 'acting' Representative. He is the Representative elected by
the Archives Project members to fill the remaining term of the Archives
Representative to the National Advisory Board, a position left open when
the former Representative resigned.
Which makes his motion a conflict. Representative in congress rally for
perk for their districts but he doesn't get those perks at the destruction
of another district or state. This motion will dissolve the "Real" Census
Project.
The Archives Project is not swallowing up anything - Census is to be moved
back the to the Project Archives aka Digital Library a different animal of
a nearly alike name, not the Archives Project. The Census Project was a
part of the Project Archives until it was removed by the person who was
hired to head that Project.
The main focus of the motion is to bring back into the fold of the Project
Archives the Census material that was removed by the Census director at
her own whim.
It was not a whim that things ended up as they did. Linda Lewis wanted to
control the Census Project, that she was not the Coordinator of. It would
be no different than if I wanted to control the state of Georgia, being a
CC. Linda was a volunteer and nothing more. But because she was in charge
of the archives she wanted those things done her way. That was being done.
The only request from Kay Mason was that, WITHIN THE ARCHIVES, she wanted
to have a separate directory a part from the regular Archives Project, which
already existed. She had been using that directory for some time. Then
Linda started having her file managers remove the files and replace them to
where she wanted them. That is why Kay did what she did, to keep Linda from
accessing at her whim, the census files. She was changing them and moving
them. By the way, this situation would have probably been corrected by now,
through the meeting they were setting up, till you had the previous motion
scared off. Which was far more fair than this one. But what I don't
understand is the difference. You claimed that one to be illegal because it
gave power to the Board that the by-laws supposedly didn't give it. Siting
that it would constitute a major reorganization of the USGW. Yet you are
hailing this one as good. Which does far more changing and destruction than
the other one.
Why?
Any Board member may make a motion on any subject. Congressmen >make
motions all
the time for goodies for their districts and is not looked at
as being a conflict of interest.
But Joe's motion makes sense. It is just plain dumb to have two Census
projects within one the USGenWeb Project. It confuses the heck out of
volunteers, visitors, and most people. It's nearly impossible for folks to
volunteer to transcribe census records - and that should not be. It is
very hard for visitors to find the actual census records - and that should
not be. As the National Coordinator - I'll do what I can to fix the second
one. The first one needs to be resolved by one census project not two.
You are right. It is just plain dumb to have two census projects. But up
until this last motion, there was only one. Linda Lewis started the other
pages, duplicating what we were already doing. She created the confusion by
setting up a totally new set of pages, taken from old pages we no longer
used. WE don't have a single problem with our volunteers. They know
exactly where their transcriptions are going and they are treated well. And
it is very easy for anyone to find census records. If they follow the links
from where they are, they will get to all of them. And what needs to be
resolved is the second set of pages that just recently sprang up, that was
addressed by the previous motion #99-5, which you didn't like because it
really did make sense. There is no reason that the Census Project cannot
have anonymity apart from the Archives Project. It was working just fine
until that second set of pages went up because Linda wanted to have control.
And you are giving it to her. But at what cost?
Yes Ron it does. In that light, you forgot to tell folks that you are one
of the right hand persons to Kay Mason for her Census project.
No Tim I didn't forget! I was speaking at the time on this list as a CC
from this state. But I have no problem with being Kay Mason's right hand
person. She is very good at what she does and she has created the Census
Project into what it has become today. This is not the work of Linda Lewis
or the Archives Project. It is the work of Kay Mason and the thousands of
Volunteers. She has given everything to this Project and you want to rip it
right away from her and hand it over to Linda Lewis. For what?
You failed Tim to tell everyone why Linda Lewis is no longer serving on the
Board. She was removed. You also forgot to tell everyone that she has
refused to abide by the Boards request to remove the second set of web pages
that she put up. These are things that should have been done but at her own
whim has done as she chose to do. And now you will reward her? She also
did not want to abide by others rules, but now she is to have what she
wants. All she has ever wanted was control of the Census Project. You also
forgot to tell the people that all transcription files created by the Census
Project are given to the Archives Project to place in the "Digital Library".
So why is there a problem? Well, let's be honest. Because she put up those
pages and refuses to take them down, you want to just give it all to her and
maybe it will all go away. Well, it won't. You will never be able to come
up with an excuse as to why she has to have control over the Project and the
web pages when she is already getting the files. After all, the files are
the most important thing, wouldn't you say?
I am proud to be accosiated with Kay Mason. At least she has the integrity
to not submit motions that directly affect her own Project and she does not
vote on them. Because to her it is a conflict of interest. Wish everyone
else had so little integrity. She may make mistakes, but she tries to
always do what is right, for everyone.
Ron