Poll: Should our FAQ group declare independence from MEG?

[Tom Wall]

Well, I've done some tallying. 

According to my calculations, seventeen members of the FAQ group are 
ALSO members of MEG. Since there are forty of us on this list, this 
means that less than half of our number overlap with the MEG group.

This, in turn, means that independence could possibly be within our 
grasp, should a vote succeed. Of course, for the sake of argument, I 
assumed that even if all of the overlapping MEG members vote as a 
block (which I know is silly and unlikely to happen,) we'd still 
have a chance.

Therefore, I've set up a poll. It's anonymous, so feel free to vote 
your conscience.

I set it to close up in a month (on 20 September) so there's plenty 
of time for everyone to sit back and think about what they'd like to 
do. When the poll results are in, they'll be mailed to everyone.

For now, (since Cindy's declined my nomination, and since I don't 
know everyone else super-duper well) I think we can put aside the 
question of 'leadership.' In fact, I think it's perfectly possible 
for us to do everything democratically, by post or poll without any 
one leader (although I do think that a 'leader' would help us get it 
together.)

But I suppose that that's another question for a later time. And 
after all, if you think about it, it *is* sort of jumping the gun to 
decide who's going to lead when we're not independent.

So, stroll on over to the polls and give it a thought.

On that note, I figure it's pretty important to ask around about how 
this should be handled - I mean, what we *want* to do is, I suppose, 
not the same thing as what we're *allowed* to do.

Is this a futile attempt in the first place? Can a veteran shed some 
light? Any MEG's wanna chime in on our authority as a group?

Anyways, it can't do any harm to take the poll. What we do with the 
results, I guess, should come later.

Vote away!

-Tom