Great idea!  I doubt that you will get them (him) to agree to follow anything that includes rules and structure to allow for success (& a large healthy LUG).  As long as people are arguing minutia they will never notice all the secondary gain that keeps successful professionals uninvolved and uninterested.  In 2002 I suggested Nonprofit status so people running the LUG functions and donating funds and equipment can write off reasonable tax exceptions.  I wrote the whole process up in the discuss list which was the impetus for heatsink labs in Mesa to jump to grants and success through internships, etc.  I told Hans I would do it all myself and he laughed in my face.   

Anyone who has lived in a comparably sized city knows what a healthy LUG is capable of simply by following direction already decreed in various guides.