[Lopsa-regional-project] Bylaws (aka "...the horror, the horror...")

[Adam Moskowitz]

I'm going to echo Travis' response on this . . . Back Bay LISA (the
second oldest sysadmin local group in the country) is and always has
been a *very* loosely organized group. In fact, things are so loose that
"organized" probably belongs in quotes. We don't have any sort of formal
membership, no by-laws, no officers, no board, and certainly no dues;
someone pays the domain registration out of his own pocket, another
member donated our server and got an employer of his to donate rack
space and bandwidth, MIT considers us part of their community so we get
to hold our meetings on campus (for free), and meetings are organized by
whomever feels like doing it. If no one has the energy to organize a
meeting, well, we don't have one that month.

By-laws? HAH! Policies and elections? Not likely. BBLISA is a SAGE local
group because 1) we had enough members who were also members of SAGE and
2) because someone bothered to sign us up. We're not a LOPSA local group
because no one has cared enough to register us -- and with these
additional requirements I can pretty much guarantee that we will never
be a LOPSA group.

As a long-established group, BBLISA has lees need of the services LOPSA
is offering to locals. For me, someone would have to make a really good
argument for how LOPSA can help BBLISA before it would be worth our
while to undertake what for us would be such a massive effort.

AdamM