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The purpose of this wiki Wiki is to act as a Handbook for The Augustan Society, Inc., providing a complete description of Society operations, procedures, policies, forms, and traditions. It is yet in its infancyAfter more than three years of development, having begun it was declared complete on 1 September 201431 December 2017, and there is much yet to be loadedwith only a few minor items missing. Once that phase is complete, corrections Corrections and additions will be are solicited, and the editing rights will begin in earnestbe granted to any member willing to contribute.

John F. Woods[[Elected Officers]], a computer programmer active in the last decade of the 20^th century[[Directors]], [[Committee Chairmen]], famously wrote[[Committee Chairmen|Coordinators]], ''"Always code as if [[Committee Chairmen|Moderators]], and [[Committee Chairmen|Deans]] of the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live."'' Authors of pages here Society are thus admonished urged to make sure take responsibility for the pages that what is written is not only correct describe their duties. To do so, register on the Wiki. The Webmaster will approve your access and complete, but well organized, so that our successors may take assist you in getting up the reigns from us with minimal troubleto speed.

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First, that our founder left the Society Those charged with essentially no instructions on how it operated. He kept most procedures building and policies in his head (maintaining this Wiki are likely to tire of the tedium of this task, and changed them as he saw fit)to ask if the effort is of any value. Thus the second managment team had This writer has two things to invent all from scratch, a job much more difficult that it needed say which I urge you to be. Please have pity on your successors, and upon mine.remember at such times:

First, that our [[Founder]] left the Society with essentially no instructions on how it operated. He kept most procedures and policies in his head (and changed them as he saw fit). Thus the second management team had to invent all from scratch, a job much more difficult that it needed to be. Please have pity on your successors. If you cannot muster that, then have pity on the Society itself, which only just survived the first interregnum (so far) and may not endure another. Second, I would offer a quotation from John F. Woods, a computer programmer from the late 20th century, who advised, "Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live." This is the same message stated a bit more (perhaps too) strongly — that you should leave such careful instructions, and explanations for those instructions, that those who follow will never have reason to curse your namememory.