[Lopsa-regional-project] project start

[Eric Eisenhart]

On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 12:33:05PM -0600, Jack Coats wrote:
> I suggest we have both LOPSA Chapters (a formal arrangement) and Affiliated 
> Groups (a less formal, but supportave arrangement).  

I think this is a really good idea.  Essential, in fact.

Possibly more than 2 types of status, even.  A menu of choices for what
"affiliated" means...

And some services might only make sense to provide to "chapters" and not
"affiliated groups".  Such as website hosting and mailing lists.

> If there are sucessful groups in an area, they might not want to turn 
> over 'keys to their kingdom' to another group, but this might be a way to 
> have currently existing groups become affiliated and, with active LOPSA 
> members also being in these groups, share the benefits of networking, 
> discounts, have invitations to LOPSA functions extended (members get 
> discounts, others don't) to these groups and their members, etc.

Even groups that haven't formed yet but that don't need any of the types of
help LOPSA can offer might not want to hand over the keys to the kingdom. 
I'm working with some other people on starting up a group, and we can
already manage hosting our own domain with mailing lists and a web site.
-- 
Eric Eisenhart <*@eric.eisenhart.name>
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