The Bylaws Revision Committee (BRC) has completed a first
draft revision of Section 4 of Article X. Local Projects.
Section 4. If a Local Coordinator can no longer perform their
duties for any reason, (including, but not limited to,
abandonment of the
site, resignation or dismissal for valid cause), content of the website
submitted by contributors shall remain with the website, unless the
contributor(s) otherwise request.
All revision drafts may be viewed at
http://home.mchsi.com/~sagitta56/
Members are encouraged to send comments or questions related to this or
other revision drafts.
Roger Swafford
BRC - Chairman
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The Discuss list and other lists have exploded yesterday (7/29) regarding
this issue.
Some folks (the revisionists and some others) seem to think that anything
you contribute to your county site - that when you leave this Project, that
you must leave your work as part of the site. While you can take a copy
with you - these folks are saying you MUST leave a copy with the USGenWeb
Project.
The policy thus far has been that when a person leaves they are free to
take the items they have contributed to the site, if they so desire - while
leaving the queries or other material contributed by others to the site.
Also the policy thus far has been that if you adopt x site that if the
former coordinator gives their site and its entire contents to the Project
that the new coordinator would leave the previous person's work - modify
the contact information, but leave the data as is.
I do not support the proposed policy change.
Tim
PS - a further explanation from the BRC to follow.