From what I understand, proposed by-law amendments need to be sponsored by x-amount of XXGenWeb's to be placed on the ballot for the annual election that's coming up in August. I haven't read the amendments thoroughly, but will give an opinion if anyone wants it. I do know that certain folks are trying to break up the USGenWeb Archives and put them into the control of the XXGenWeb's. I would not agree with that. Since starting the USGenWeb Archives in June 1996, I've fought many attempts to either destroy or split them up, for one purpose or another. The Archives, operating under much stricter guidelines than the USGenWeb county sites, etc., have been successful and we now have about 4 megs of textual data, and 27 gigs of scanned images - for permanent free storage. The people that are trying to change the USGenWeb Archives, by destroying or splitting, are not active in that project. Linda Freddie Spradlin wrote: > > I know of no plans for a Project-wide election on the various amendments > to the bylaws spawned by the seemingy endless controversy resulting from > the delinking of the "second" Archives Project pages ... > > My impression is that any vote within VAGenWeb would be advisory in > nature for our Regional Representative to the Advisory Board, and > perhaps after some action by them, there might be a vote on an amendment. > > I've not been following too closely, since I get turned off by the > vituperative > messages on the USGENWEB-ALL mailing list and hit my "delete" button, > FAST > > Regards, > Freddie S.