[steering] proposed letter to theforum

[Marlene Bruce]

Hey guys,

I wrote this about a week ago, but haven't had time to fill in the
missing bullet points. I can't sit on this any longer, and since I'm
moving in a week my time is a bit precious.

Please, anyone, fill in the bullets, and I'll review any edits and so forth...

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Subject: evolt.org revamp comment period open

Everyone,

Over the last month or so the Steering Committee has been discussing
a major upgrade to evolt.org's site, lists, and services.

We want to improve many aspects of what we're currently doing, including:

* providing better content and services to our members and visitors,
* coming more into compliance with our open-source philosophy,
* better facilitating community ownership, participation and communication,
* revamping our back and front ends,
* dramatically lowering our costs,
* and more...

As you can imagine, this is a major undertaking. Come this December
evolt.org will be celebrating our 5th birthday, and we'd like to
unveil a dramatically improved evolt.org prior to and in anticipation
of this milestone.

There are several steps that we have already identified, though this
list may not be inclusive:

* [I was going to add bullets based on our Steering discussion.]

What we need is the go-ahead from theforum to start pursuing the
upgrade. A comment period will extend until [one week(?) from when
this email is sent, unless the need for a deadline extension becomes
apparent.]

If you want to read the discussion we've had on Steering, you can see
the full text starting at:
http://lists.evolt.org/steeringarchive/2002-December/000163.html
If you're interested in commenting on what we (on steering) propose,
please read the discussion first.

Voting will commence at the end of the discussion period, and last
5(?) days. I will send specific details about voting just before it
commences.

Thanks,
Marlene

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Feel free to hack, add, modify, change focus, or completely rewrite.

Thanks,
Marlene