Please take the time to read these two messages from Megan our USGenWeb coordinator. This first one should NOT have an immediate effect but may trun out to be a problem later. **************MEGAN"S MESSAGE*********************** Jerry Dill, Lucy Dill, and Pat Smith have privately incorporated as USGenWeb, Inc., a for-profit Idaho corporation. Having done so, they have held that information close to the chest for two and a half months, not informing the National Coordinator of USGW, the Board, or any other volunteer, to the best of my knowledge. I found this out last Monday, and the Board and I have been discussing how to deal with the situation both with and without Jerry Dill, ever since then. LET ME STATE CLEARLY FOR ALL VOLUNTEERS: Every piece of information we have been able to gather says that in NO way does this give their corporation ownership of The USGenWeb Project or any part of it. I intended this information to go public a bit more smoothly, tomorrow. As it happens, however, it's been leaked on a reasonably large list; in order to minimize privately passed misinformation, I'm announcing it now. megan -- Megan Zurawicz, National Coordinator USGenWeb * pigoletto@worldnet.att.net http://www.usgenweb.net * http://www.usgenweb.org * http://www.usgenweb.com ************END MEGAN'S MESSAGE********************************* What she is talking about here is the fact that with this company having the same name as our project it may cause some confusion,the USGenWeb project has NOT privately incorporated. In her next message,you will want to know in case you have a problem with me. ************MEGAN'S MESSAGE********************************** There are two state coordinators that we're having real problems with (my definition of "real problem" being that my mailbox is filling with complaints both from ccs and the public that they are unaccessible or unresponsive). We've another that answers mail well, but has a disagreement with what I think is the common perception of a state coordinator's job: doesn't think it's their job to deal with county pages that don't meet standards, or aren't updated, or are just plain abandoned. Since the method that was used to deal with a similar situation was less than optimum, perhaps we need to develop another method of dealing with this situation. When there's this much problem, it might be a good thing if county coordinators were willing to publicly state that they are having problems, so they can be worked out or a clear solution found (especially when it's this widespread). It really *is* difficult for me or the board to handle the situation on the basis of mail that comes to me with "you can't tell even the board it's me that said this". People, if you aren't willing to stand up and say "HEY I GOT A PROBLEM" in public, it isn't fair to ask other folks to remove somebody from their job because you're unhappy. That said....let the discussion of who's got problems with who begin. Perhaps a public discussion that that many people have got specific problems with the way an SC does or doesn't do their job will lead to them correcting the problem; if not, then other steps may have to be taken. I doubt we've got ANY SC that at least one cc doesn't have a problem with (at least in states with more than 50 counties<G>), and that's okay. What we want to look at is those places where it's a majority problem. megan megan -- Megan Zurawicz, National Coordinator USGenWeb * pigoletto@worldnet.att.net http://www.usgenweb.net * http://www.usgenweb.org * http://www.usgenweb.com *********END MEGAN'S MESSAGE**************************************** Later...........Fred