Derrick,
I am sorry. I just do not understand your email. We have informed the
project. You may want to review your email.
I apologize if I have offended you.
Tina
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tina S. Vickery" <tsvickery(a)gmail.com>
To: "Derick Hartshorn" <DerickH(a)charter.net>; <wchs(a)getgoin.net>;
"Tina
Vickery" <tsvickery(a)gmail.com>; "Suzanne Shephard"
<syshephard(a)charter.net>;
<seidahogenealogy(a)hotmail.com>; "Scott Burow" <sburow(a)swbell.net>;
<nana321(a)tatumtel.net>; <lflesher(a)fidnet.com>;
<ldrbelties(a)earthlink.net>;
"Linda Blum-Barton" <lblumb(a)gmail.com>; "Jan Cortez"
<janacortez(a)charter.net>; "Gail Kilgore" <gail.kilgore(a)gmail.com>;
<dcaallen(a)pacifier.com>; <cyndiee(a)tampabay.rr.com>;
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"bluebear" <bluebear(a)new.rr.com>
Cc: <ncgenweb-discuss(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:03 PM
Subject: Re: RootsWeb and status of xxGenWeb entities
Excuse me??
Tina
----- Original Message -----
From: "Derick Hartshorn" <DerickH(a)charter.net>
To: <USGWP Board :>
Cc: <ncgenweb-discuss(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 6:49 PM
Subject: RootsWeb and status of xxGenWeb entities
> Dear folks,
>
> Since receiving any response from BOARD-L seems to be an exercise in
> futility, I am addressing each member individually.
>
> As a proud member of the NCGenWeb Project, we have taken positive actions
> regarding the threat we are faced with.
> Messages from USGWP and BOARD-L seem to be dominated by whether or not to
> incorporate or to propose a motion or withdraw it.
> You folks seem to be bound up in a bureaucracy that seems to be unable to
> arrive at a consensus, let alone, advising and informing Project members.
> Meanwhile, 37 states have chosen to move their sites to independent
> servers without any seeming help or guidance from our national
> organization.
>
> I note that the Project page:
>
http://www.usgenweb.org/projects/index.shtml
> continues to point to RW server pages that house an enormous amount of
> our
> data.
> I have yet to hear from national how this issue will be addressed. Most
> of
> these Projects are rooted in the county level.
> I have personally taken it on my own to "adopt" these county Projects to
> my newly-housed pages, in effect, duplicating the Project pages.
> There is no doubt that our benevolent sponsors have taken actions to
> retain these rich resources for some later use, commercial or whatever.
>
> There is a pressing need to act with haste to protect our resources from
> the threat of unauthorized use. Yet, I have not witnessed any concrete
> action by national.
> I have voted for AB representatives since the very first USGWP election.
> Based on the actions these elected officials have thus far taken, I lack
> confidence in them.
> Whether or not the USGenWeb Project succumbs to the commercial interests
> who have made their intentions clear, I don't know.
> Whether or not the USGenWeb Project incorporates as a 401(c)(3) is a moot
> point.
> The protection and preservation of the information that each and every
> member has contributed to the USGWP is of paramount importance.
> My question is: WHAT ARE YOU FOLKS DOING ABOUT IT???
>
> If the national Project follows the example set by the NCGenWeb Project,
> the continued concept of FREE GENEALOGY is assured.
> If our USGWP elected officials continue to diddle and fuss about Rules of
> Order, to the exclusion of concrete action on this pressing threat, we
> doomed to fracture and dissipation and become another Internet has-been.
>
> If you generals and admirals do nothing else, how about communicating
> with
> the soldiers and sailors who are doing their best to fight this war.
>
> Derick S. Hartshorn
> Former NC State Coordinator, NCGenWeb Project
> Current USGenWeb Project-County Coordinator
> Catawba/Burke/Lincoln/Gaston/Cleveland, NC
>
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nccatawb/
>
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncburke/
>
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nclincol/
>
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncgaston/
>
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncclevel/
>
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nhcamher/
>
>