[LUGSB] LUGSB constitution.

[Ryan Kaufman]

On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Chris Wright wrote:

> On 02/04/2008, Ryan Kaufman <rkaufman at ams.sunysb.edu> wrote:
>>  Well, not explaining ourselves clearly enough to be understood by an
>>  'outsider' would violate our stated purpose of raising awareness, wouldn't
>> it? Unless we are just raising our own awareness of things we already know
>> about (which we are, but we should try to go farther). I think we can ignore
>> the definition of 'open source', and strike any references to it as it falls
>> under the heading of 'free'. Please correct me if this is wrong or
>> backwards.
>
> There are three issues: explaining ourselves so that we know what we
> should be doing, explaining ourselves to people in order to accomplish
> that, and explaining ourselves to people so they can tell whether we
> are accomplishing that.
>
> We already have the necessary technical knowledge.
>
> Our constitution will not actually attract any members, no matter how
> well worded.
>
> LUGSB should not be evaluated by someone who cannot look up the
> definition of Open Source. It will be evaluated by such people, but
> they will have much more information on us than just our constitution.
>
> In this case, I think the appropriate action would be to provide
> supplementary documentation to the constitution. Or perhaps a
> Definitions section.

 	I like this solution. A definitions section will allow a succinct 
mission statement which is non-technical, while providing detailed 
definitions that will make it not vague.


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