🚀 go-pugleaf

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The subject of a name change for EFF-Austin came up, as it does with
terrible regularity, and was shouted down by the name-change skeptics.
About this time,  Jon Lebkowsky showed up with several new possible names.
The current heavy disarray at EFF- Bay Area (formerly EFF National) makes it
seem wise to shelve this debate for the time being.   If we find we need a
new name after all,  Lebkowsky is clearly our man.
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EFF is still EFF, as national as always. We're just not in DC or MA any more.
We do appologize for the "disarray", which has been very real and very 
much a pain the bee-hind.

To clarify the Bay area thing, there is no EFF Bay Area, but there's 
"BayFF", which isn't an organization, it's just EFF member meetings in 
the SF Bay area, hosted usually by our boardmember John Gilmore.
Personally, I hope the eventual result of them will be the founding of an 
EF-Bay or EF-California to work on local/state issues.  Every state needs 
one of these (whatever the names).  So far only Texas (on a multi-local 
basis via EFF-A., EFH, and maybe an EF El Paso, but I'm not sure), New York 
(via SEA) and New Hampshire (via EFNH) have any kind of e-activism 
state-level infrastructure, AFAIK.  SF almost had this, but This!Group fell 
apart almost two years ago, and there doesn't appear to've been any 
concerted organizing efforts since then.  :(


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