Good evening, everyone. The Bylaws Committee has completed preliminary work on Articles 3 and 4 (Membership and Officers, respectively). Both articles refer to Policies and Procedures. The current proposals may be seen at http://www.rootsweb.com/~gacolqu2/bylaws/proposals.html, or on the Bylaws Message Board (http://www.thegaproject.org/discuss.htm). We are *very* interested in your thoughts concerning these articles. I've created topics on the message board for discussing each of these, and the Policies and Procedures topic has a separate thread for each section of the policies. Please post comments and suggestions to the message boards -- that will ease traffic on this list as well as simplify it for the committee to include your comments in subsequent drafts. You must register for the message board in order to post a reply there, but registration is easy -- just email me and ask to be registered. I'll send you a user name and password. For people who are already registered but don't remember their password: I don't have the original passwords that were issued, but I can reset passwords. Just let me know. If you prefer to post anonymously, send your comments to me and I'll post them under the user name Anonymous. Just a reminder -- these are proposals, and are not final. We'd like your comments and suggestions by Friday, April 1. Thanks, Jacki Bylaws Chair Bylaws Committee Page: http://www.rootsweb.com/~gacolqu2/bylaws/

Hi again, Let me once again encourage you to let the committee know what you think about the current proposals. We need your input! Let me mention one topic in particular -- the site requirements. There are several items on the list we've proposed. We talked a bit about making part of them requirements and part of them suggestions but didn't split the list up, waiting for feedback from you. The current proposals may be seen at http://www.rootsweb.com/~gacolqu2/bylaws/proposals.html, or on the Bylaws Message Board (http://www.thegaproject.org/discuss.htm). You'll need to be a registered user to post comments on the message board but everyone can read it. If you want to be registered, just drop me an email and I'll set it up. Thanks, Jacki