Hi All! I am pasting a copy of a motion that has been presented to the Board. If this motion goes through it will totally destroyed the Archives as we know it. I personally am appauled by this motion and am in hopes that it does not pass. If this motion does pass then I will be resigning as the ALGENWEB ARCHIVES file manager and will resign as cc for the following counties: Escambia, Conecuh, and Lamar. I will also pull all the records that I have contributed to the Archives and will urge all other contributors to do the same. PLease read all of the following and if you have any questions I will try to answer them and if I can't I will find someone with in the Archives that can. I would really appreciate all imput from the cc's of AL and also Leigh our State Coordinator. Also you too may voice you opinion in this matter by writing to the borad members at the email addresses below: MSPIGLET@prodigy.net kmfkm@ptw.com jpowelljr@worldnet.att.net hen1@IDT.NET FEATHER2s@aol.com jcraven@usunwired.net bascs@wizard.com estral@switchboard.net holt@txcyber.com bwills@ionia-mi.net betsym@1starnet.com cgsnyder@uiuc.edu wnoliver@glasscity.com tstowell@mccallie.org mishiawa@shiatel.tds.net cityslic@ix.netcom.com cestus3@inetnebr.com Here is the board's motion: > --------------1589252D748B > Content-Type: message/rfc822 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Disposition: inline > > Return-Path: <BOARD-L-request@rootsweb.com> > Received: from bl-14.rootsweb.com (bl-14.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.30]) > by ixmail4.ix.netcom.com (8.8.7-s-4/8.8.7/(NETCOM v1.01)) with ESMTP id KAA25172; > for <cityslic@ix.netcom.com>; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 10:36:11 -0800 (PST) > Received: (from slist@localhost) > by bl-14.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA28276; > Fri, 5 Mar 1999 10:37:42 -0800 (PST) > Resent-Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 10:37:42 -0800 (PST) > From: FEATHER2s@aol.com > Message-ID: <b674913a.36e023a0@aol.com> > Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 13:34:08 EST > Old-To: BOARD-L@rootsweb.com > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 205 > Subject: [BOARD-L] Motion to Adopt Resolution > Resent-Message-ID: <"MF4JK.A.J5G.1RC42"@bl-14.rootsweb.com> > To: BOARD-L@rootsweb.com > Resent-From: BOARD-L@rootsweb.com > Reply-To: BOARD-L@rootsweb.com > X-Mailing-List: <BOARD-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/1661 > X-Loop: BOARD-L@rootsweb.com > Precedence: list > Resent-Sender: BOARD-L-request@rootsweb.com > > I Move the adoption of the following Resolution: > > Whereas, the USGenWeb Project has amassed huge amounts of data, with the > purpose of making it available to all researchers free of charge, and > > Whereas that purpose remains unchanged, and this collection of data has become > large enough that diversification has become necessary, and > > Whereas the Bylaws of The USGenWeb Project addressed this in Article XIII by > separating the digital library commonly referred to as "the Archives" into > separate entities, naming them The USGenWeb Archives Project, The USGenWeb > Census Project, and The USGenWeb Tombstone Project, and provided for the > creation of future Special Projects, appointment of Coordinators for them, and > specified how these things must be accomplished, and > > Whereas common sense indicates that each Special Project should have its own > directory and its own infrastructure for file creation, uploading and file > maintenance and not have their files co-mingled with those of any other > Special Project, therefore be it > > RESOLVED: > > That the Special Projects of the USGenWeb Project be known collectively as the > USGenWeb Project Digital Library and a page be placed on the national website > at www.usgenweb.org/library.html and at www.usgenweb.net/library.html as a > main entrance to the Digital Library, with all Special Projects of the > USGenWeb Project being listed, a brief history of each Special Project, as > well as a link provided there to each Special Project, and > > That each Special Project will maintain their own directory and > infrastructure, separate from any other Special Project, and further > > That duplication of the efforts of any Special Project by any other Special > Project is counterproductive and not to be done; whenever possible, volunteer > submissions will be referred to the appropriate Special Project, and > > That the National Coordinator of the USGenWeb Project will instruct the > Webmaster for The USGenWeb Project to place this Resolution on the Special > Projects page of the national website within 48 hours of its adoption by the > Advisory Board, and > > That the Secretary of the USGenWeb Advisory Board be required to distribute > this Resolution to all the Regional Mailing Lists, the State Coordinators > List, and the unofficial USGenWeb -Discuss and USGenWeb-ALL lists within the > same 48 hour period. > > Respectfully submitted, > > Ginger Cisewski > Northwest-Plains CC Representative > > --------------1589252D748B-- Lygia Dawkins Cutts 881 Weaver Road Brewton, AL 36426 Cuttstree@Net1inc.net Lygia's Genealogy Page http://users.net1inc.net/cuttstree/index.htm Southwest AL Genealogy Surname Registry http://members.tripod.com/~lygia/index-1.html ALGenWeb - AL File Manager http://www.rootsweb.com/~algwarch/alfiles.htm ALGenWeb - Escambia County http://users.net1inc.net/cuttstree/escambia/gendex.html ALGenWeb - Lamar County http://www.rootsweb.com/~allamar/lamar.htm ALGenWeb - Conecuh County http://www.rootsweb.com/~alconecu/conecco.html Lygia's Clogging Page http://users.net1inc.net/cuttstree/clog.htm