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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:36:50 PST
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- From: Jeffrey Alan Foust <jafoust@CCO.CALTECH.EDU>
- Subject: Constitutional Convention T-Con
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- On the subject on constitutional conventions, let me suggest a few
- things:
-
- 1) Compile a list of topics to be discussed *beforehand*, and set
- up an agenda with specific time allotments for each topic.
-
- 2) Have people post their supporting arguments about these topics
- on SEDS-L before the t-con so during the t-con time isn't spent
- having to present them.
-
- 3) Split it up into several smaller t-cons. Having a single NINE-hour
- t-con is not the way to encourage attendance (which, for something
- of this magnitude, you very much want to encourage).
-
- 4) As for a date, wait for a little feedback from people, especially
- from those not yet back from break.
-
-
- I'm not saying that a "constitutional convention" is a bad idea, just perhaps
- a little premature. I, too, would like to correct the problems that face
- SEDS-USA. First, though, we have to decide what the problems are and then
- consider the possible the solutions before we act. It doesn't have to take
- a long time, but it does have to be done with care. And when constitutional
- changes are suggested, it has to be done with the utmost care, because we
- are dealing with the document that defines who we as an organization are.
-
- Ad astra per reasoned action,
-
- Jeff
-