https://wiki.cmukgb.org/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=Bgilbert 2026-05-27T21:31:30Z User contributions MediaWiki 1.28.2 https://wiki.cmukgb.org/index.php?title=Assocs.kgb&diff=3173 2007-10-03T00:26:54Z

<p>Bgilbert: </p> <hr /> <div>Assocs.kgb is the local electronic bulletin board for KGB discussion.<br /> Popular sub-boards include assocs.kgb.ctfws, a.k.flamewar, a.k.carnival, and a.k.do_not_lick.<br /> <br /> For those unable to read from cyrus.andrew.cmu.edu, the computer club newsfeed has these boards.<br /> <br /> For those no longer with access, you can still get your assocs.kgb fix<br /> by joining the comrades mailing list at: http://www.cmukgb.org/lists/listinfo<br /> <br /> Please note that sub-boards are not mirrored to the comrades list.</div>

Bgilbert https://wiki.cmukgb.org/index.php?title=Bylaws_Committee&diff=2743 2007-05-06T18:37:00Z

<p>Bgilbert: </p> <hr /> <div>The '''Bylaws Committee''' was formed in... 1991? 1993? Maybe? (Is there any way to get at assocs.kgb archives?) Its purpose was to update the hastily-drawn-up original [[Bylaws]] without letting them turn into a complete football. <br /> <br /> (KGB has always had a certain tendency to... shall we say... use [[Robert's Rules of Order]] as a screwdriver rather than a benevolent iron-fist-velvet-glove of moderation. In other words, the [[President]] would try to keep the [[meetings|meeting]] in order by invoking the [[Bylaws]], and some joker would yell &quot;Amendment!&quot;... Okay, this wasn't a ''common'' occurrence, but it could have become so.)<br /> <br /> To solve this problem, [[Zarf]] was appointed to be the Bylaws Committee. Not the ''head'' of the Bylaws Committee, mind you, but the whole thing. Nobody else got to be on the Committee. If there was a problem with the [[Bylaws]], [[Zarf]] would listen carefully, go off in a corner, and then come back with a revised document. Or not. Most often, the job of the Bylaws Committee was to ignore suggestions that needed to be ignored.<br /> <br /> This form of the Bylaws Committee's job became even easier to do when [[Zarf]] left [[Pittsburgh|town]] in 1995. After a couple of years, it lapsed entirely, and the Bylaws Committee entered a new phase of its existence, about which I know nothing.<br /> <br /> The Bylaws Committee produced a flurry of amendments in the years 2002-2004. This review of the [[Bylaws]] was sparked by a set of [[Elections|election]] catastrophes which made the entire [[KGB|organization]] recoil in horror. A [[Bylaws commentary|commentary]] on the changes is forthcoming, and has been for some time.<br /> <br /> [[Category:Committees]]</div>

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