Goverment.

[James Simmons]

> Organization is like the Federal and State governments. We ought to
> have just as much of it as we need -- hint, very little -- and not a bit
> more. Almost any kind of truly representative small committee would work
> and we ought to make it mandatory that people on it get off it in favor of
> someone new so the committee doesn't become a loathsome dragon.

Yuk!!! If we had over 1000 memeber I could see it. 

> I have one suggestion. We could tighten up the presentations by setting
> a time limit (this bothers me a bit though: we were all having fun) and
> -- this is more important -- providing members who may want to
> wander off with a printed handout containing main points, references,
> links, etc.

We sort of do that now. Offically the presentation is supposed to go to
3:00pm and then we have one hour of socializing. Yes I know we ran over
time last time :(