>Teri, > >I do think there needs to be some language about specifically *allowing* CCs >to accept donated source records or other materials (such as in the case of >the census image CDs from SK). Yeah, I thought that might be a good idea, but I know I tend to be long-winded, so I thought I'd let others decide whether to include it or not. One possibility might be to put that in a SEPARATE amendment, so that CC's could vote for it independently. From Joy's message, it sounds like it might be more controversial than the other parts. As a general rule-of-thumb, I like to split votes up by line item as long as it isn't ridiculous. Basically, whenever you have reason to predict that a large number of people will feel differently about the two parts. One of my pet peeves about the way our national and state governments work is the way they construct bills with a hundred sections, each legislator and special interest lobby adding their own pet amendment, until by the time it finally gets voted on you either get a whole giant boondoggle, or nothing at all. >I'm assuming that your >thinking is to submit this amendment proposal under Article XVI, Section 5, >right? ("In the case of an urgent matter affecting the well-being of The >USGenWeb Project . . .") Oh no, if we call this "urgent", we've pretty much lost all ability to say anything isn't urgent. The word loses its meaning. What I'm proposing is, that since the By-Laws specify that all non-emergency amendments must be introduced by one state and co-sponsored by 5 more states, that we ask the State Coordinators if 6 or more of them are willing to post this amendment to their state lists for possible sponsorship. In the long run, I think we need to get an amendment passed that amends the By-Law on requiring state sponsorship. It's too big of a bottleneck, as I've posted before. NOTHING has ever got more than two states to sponsor it. But a simple, just-for-clarification, likely-to-pass amendment might be the best way to see if the 6-states procedure can be made to work at all. If it can, then we can try working on some more substantial amendments. // Teri