November, 2003

Policy vote result: 

Votes are in and polls are closed. Results are as follows: 

For: 17 
Against: 2 
Abstain: 2 

Last vote was received Tuesday morning and polls were closed Thursday. 
No late votes were received and no invalid votes were received. 

As you will see, the policy has been adopted. 

I think the numbers speak for themselves. Not unanimous, but quite 
significantly in favor. 

I would like to thank our Ad-Hoc Committee for their effort in drafting 
this document. I think we can now say that the mission of this committee 
has been successfully concluded. 

I will now turn the floor over to the representative of the opposing 
political party for the dissenting opinion. :) 
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The policy: 

Densie writes: 

>Now I will explain why I voted "no". 

>The policy is just too verbose. I got through the first few lines and 
>skipped the rest because, IMO, it had nothing to do with going to Vegas 
>and having a good time. 

>Sorry to be so critical because it looks like someone really worked 
>hard on it, but it reminds me of lawyers, conference rooms, and rubber 
>chickens. 

I will admit that the policy is verbose, and personally, I wish such a 
policy were not necessary, but unfortunately it seems to be the case 
that it is. 

This policy actually removes a lot of "World According to Annie", 
"World According to Tina" and such text that's been previously sent to 
our people, so the net-net is that such things as the LFM will be about 
the same size. 

Now, to address rubber chickens, meeting rooms, paid registrations, and 
other C-word attributes ... 

At this time I'm feeling far less of a force to push DLV in the 
direction of a convention than I felt around 2000-2001 or so. I think 
most of our active organizers, even the new ones we picked up this year, 
are in sync with our vacation-not-convention model and wish to keep it. 

I think you know that if there is a serious effort to turn DLV into a 
High Desert FanFair clone, I'll fight it, and if unsuccessful I'll be 
the first to bail. 

We will most likely have to deal with the numbers issue one way or 
another within the forseeable future. 

But the bottom line is, if a convention happens, it will be in addition 
to, and not in place of DLV the vacation.