June 2016 - Lnc-business - Moellman Enterprises Email

Dr. Marc Allan Feldman
by Carla Howell 23 Jun '16

23 Jun '16

I deeply regret to inform you that Dr. Marc Alan Feldman has passed away. Cause of death is not yet known. We have been able to verify he's the same lovable Marc Feldman who ran for the LP presidential nomination just a few weeks ago. So sorry to bring this sad news. Carla Carla Howell Political Director National Libertarian Party 202-333-0008 x 222

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Fwd: Charles V Wilhoit 1923-2016
by Nicholas Sarwark 21 Jun '16

21 Jun '16

Dr. Phillies recently informed me of some sad news and asked me to pass it along to the committee: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: George Phillies <phillies(a)4liberty.net> Date: Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 8:50 PM Subject: Charles V Wilhoit 1923-2016 Charles Wilhoit (Captain, USN, Retired), former State Chairman, Libertarian Party of Tennessee and former candidate for Vice Chairman, National Libertarian Party, passed away in May, 2016, at the age of 93. He maintained his mental acuity to the end, and until very recently was in vigorous good health.

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Fwd: Informing LNC about Illinois Ballot Access Progress
by Nicholas Sarwark 21 Jun '16

21 Jun '16

An update on Illinois, through 6/17/16. Things are improving. -Nick ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Wes Benedict <wes.benedict(a)lp.org> Date: Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 12:20 PM Subject: Re: Informing LNC about Illinois Ballot Access Progress To: Nicholas Sarwark <chair(a)lp.org> Cc: Bill Redpath <william.redpath(a)lp.org> This is an update through 6/17. That's the latest their master spreadsheet has complete data. Wes Benedict, Executive Director Libertarian National Committee, Inc. 1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314(202) 333-0008 ext. 232, wes.benedict(a)lp.orgfacebook.com/libertarians @LPNational Join the Libertarian Party at: http://lp.org/membership

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L-Pedia
by Caryn Ann Harlos 21 Jun '16

21 Jun '16

I do not recall this being brought up, and this seems like an issue who's time for addressing is far overdue. I inquired with James Gholston who has been an administrator of accounts there, and he provided me with this information and request. I'd like to get this discussion going, and perhaps if there is interest, speak with some of you about co-sponsoring a motion to get this going. ==== As probably everyone I'm sending this email to knows, our party has a history-centric wiki (since 2005) that has very high PageRank and shows up heavily in searches. It is likely the biggest online repository that lists names of people who have participated in the Libertarian Party (with access to some party data, we could crank out a lot of biographical articles). Situation: MediaWiki is not designed to be maintained without shell and ftp access, but only paid contractors and staff have this level of access. Meanwhile, the LNC Staff does not have time to maintain react-text: 196 LPedia.org /react-text <http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2FLPedia.org%2F&h=IAQGLgKMN>, and the party doesn't have the resources to pay someone to maintain it. What problems do we have that result? Two big ones are visible on the front page. Three years ago account creation was temporarily locked down when we were getting more than 100 garbage articles and accounts added per minute and it's still temporarily down. Also, a needed image permission is broken on the server preventing image uploads while the wiki settings prohibit linking to external images. The really pixellated image of John Hospers isn't really an image. It's a table. ...And it's roughly a third of a megabyte. A PNG or JPEG would be a tiny fraction of the size and would look far nicer, but it hasn't been possible to add one of those for a few years. Additional problems: The version of MediaWiki we're using is eight years out of date -- and that update seven years ago was done by the LNC staff spending money. Extensions are needed -- both to add features to handle the data on react-text: 205 LPedia.org /react-text <http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2FLPedia.org%2F&h=wAQH_h6KR>and to control attacks (our PageRank makes us a high value target). Our main tool for controlling attacks is a bot that runs on my personal desktop (written four and a half years ago when successful attacks were exceeding what could be humanly controlled in a reasonable amount of time as a workaround for lack of server access) -- and stops running whenever my machine or Internet connectivity are down, allowing garbage to accumulate. We have no meaningful extensions to stop things (a decade-old CAPTCHA that's easily bypassed -- especially with the version of MediaWiki we're running). With the bot ( react-text: 211 http://lpedia.org/User:WHUMP /react-text <http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Flpedia.org%2FUser%3AWHUMP&h=mAQE…>) it's possible to continue to allow anonymous contributions (most of our contributions have always been anonymous -- many very substantial) and I can bug people for usernames and email addresses and add the manually when I know about them or personally recruit them, but reliance on these steps is not optimal. Also, what do we do when a PHP or SQL update breaks MediaWiki 1.12 altogether? My suggested fix: Move react-text: 220 LPedia.org /react-text <http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2FLPedia.org%2F&h=KAQGIW0iR>to a server where trusted volunteers are allowed under-the-hood access. It doesn't need to be anything even remotely fancy or expensive: A shared hosting DreamHost account would be more than sufficient. Additional volunteer-maintainable party domains -- presently existing or merely potential -- could be hosted on the same server and also be maintained by volunteers (and/or staff and contractors, time permitting). The LNC staff can retain control when they see a need or find time to exercise it, yet not be a bottleneck when there's simply too many things to do, not enough staff, and not enough time for even just the essentials. There are other historical concerns and things that might be relatively easy to do to help the volunteers who participate with react-text: 226 LPedia.org /react-text <http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2FLPedia.org%2F&h=QAQES3Arj>(I'd like to change the default licence to public domain and I'm concerned about the mold/mildew risk to our unscanned surviving archival documents after the basement flood), but let me focus on just this one thing right now. ======= I have cc'd James on this message so he can keep track and feed me relevant information. -- In Liberty, Caryn Ann Harlos Region 1 Representative (Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington) Caryn.Ann.Harlos(a)LP.org

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staff is way overloaded
by Wes Benedict 21 Jun '16

21 Jun '16

I apologize for not being able to complete everything and respond to all messages in a timely manner. -- Wes Benedict, Executive Director Libertarian National Committee, Inc. 1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314 (202) 333-0008 ext. 232, wes.benedict(a)lp.org facebook.com/libertarians @LPNational Join the Libertarian Party at: http://lp.org/membership

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draft minutes of 5/30/16 LNC session
by Alicia Mattson 21 Jun '16

21 Jun '16

Attached are the first draft minutes from the 5/30/16 LNC session in Orlando. Any corrections for the minutes are due to me by June 23. Please make sure that I have not erroneously listed any attendees in the absentee section. I took attendance by looking around the room, and I do not yet know all of the new faces, so it's quite possible I missed someone who was actually present. For those of you new to the LNC this term, last term I started playing a brownie point game in which I award points for various things such as catching mistakes/typos in my minutes, demonstrating nuanced knowledge of our rules, amusing the Secretary, etc. The rules and point awards will be arbitrary and subject to my whims. To encourage the LNC to actually read the minutes, I often include a "Waldo" in the first draft of the minutes (but not EC minutes because there's no revision cycle in that auto-approval process). The first person to find Waldo and email me about it gets a brownie point. What's a Waldo? You'll know it when you read it. Waldo is removed before the final version is approved. -Alicia

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EC meeting, Wednesday, June 22, 10pm Eastern
by Alicia Mattson 21 Jun '16

21 Jun '16

There will be an Executive Committee teleconference on Wednesday, June 22, at a little-bit-later time than usual to accommodate those who might be watching a certain CNN Town Hall... The meeting is being called to discuss the following: - Increasing the Illinois encumbrance from $50,000 to $70,000. - Authorizing the LNC to join as an amicus in the Ohio ballot access case. - Potentially authorizing an encumbrance for Maine to support them getting voter registrations before the July 12 deadline. Date: Wednesday, June 22, 2016 Time: 10:00 p.m. Eastern / 9:00 p.m. Pacific Dial-in: (217) 258-5588 <1%20%28217%29%20258-5588> Guest Pin Code: 207730 1. At conference time, dial the Conference Dial-In number above. 2. At the prompt, enter the Access Code followed by the # key. 3. You will hear music until the Moderator enters the call. To mute your individual phone line, press * 6. To un-mute your individual phone line, press * 7. -Alicia

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approved 5/26/16 EC minutes
by Alicia Mattson 21 Jun '16

21 Jun '16

Attached are the now-approved minutes from the 05/26/16 Executive Committee meeting. Staff, please post to the website when you get a chance to do so. -Alicia

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updated minutes of the 5/26/16 LNC session
by Alicia Mattson 21 Jun '16

21 Jun '16

The period for comments on the 05/26/16 draft minutes ended on Saturday. I received no requests for corrections. Without objection, this draft will be auto-approved on June 27, 2016. -Alicia

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Fwd: Detective work - Convention photo captions
by Carla Howell 21 Jun '16

21 Jun '16

Can anyone identify the women in the first and third shots of the attached? And can anyone confirm the middle one is the Florida delegation? The blonde on left looks like Dana Cummings-Moxley, but not sure it's her. These are possible pics for LP News. Want to caption whichever we choose. Carla Howell Political Director National Libertarian Party 202-333-0008 x 222 -

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