At 3:55 PM -0700 4/12/00, RootsLady wrote: >Boardmembers, >When our National Coordinator delinked the Census Project and gave his >reasons I started checking the reasons he gave. I decided to post some of >what I found. So, I've put together a page addressing some of the causes for >the delinking the Census Project and additional information concerning the >Census Projects themselves. I am still adding to it still. I will continue >to add to it even after we vote. If you have additional information you >think might be helpful to help us all sort these issues out, I would be >happy to consider posting it. > >We are likely to be addressing additional Census issues for some time. >http://lest-we-forget.com/census/ Barbara, Your page, Stacey's mailing list, Shari's forum, Tim's forwarded email, etc., should all be useful resources when we proceed to seating a Census Project board rep and then voting on the merger plans. Thanks for the effort that you put into gathering this. Right now, though, we are voting only on whether the NC has the authority to delink a project. It seems to me that even if, say, the Tombstone Project's front page were to suddenly show up with banner ads proclaiming that the USGenWeb Project supports so-and-so for President and charging your credit card to access the Tombstone index, the ByLaws would *still* require that the Advisory Board vote to notify them that their page was non-compliant and give them 2 weeks to get into compliance. The National Coordinator or the national Webmaster could not do it on their own. (Although if a violation were that egregious, I would hope any subproject's own volunteers would rise up in rebellion against their webmaster long before two weeks went by.) -- Teri