[wellylug] Formalising WellyLUG

[Damon Lynch]

On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 00:48, Jamie Dobbs wrote:
> >
> > I find 5 pages of rules uncomfortable.
> > I don't think I'll be joining.
> >
> I also find this amount of 'rules' uncomfortable and wonder why there is a
> need for such a complex set of rules?

Relax people :-)  In the Dev-Zone library (for instance) there is a 300
page book on "Guide for Meetings and Organisations".  5 pages?  That's
quite small.

> My view is that the group has existed well enough so far without having to
> formalise it, so why do we need to do so now?

Compared to, for instance, the Bangalore LUG, the group is chaotic!  The
rules help in getting a little order in among the gamut of activities
and directions the group could go.  

> Most people who have posted seem to feel quite uncomfortable about such a
> set of rules to formalise the group and I would fear that if persisted
> with it may just fragment the LUG into 2 new LUGs, one with formalisation
> and one without.

A little awareness raising and shared understanding would avoid this
potential problem.  If we can agree on where we want to go, then there
is probably no problem at all.  If we can't, then our LUG is nothing
more than a loose affiliation of people who share a few things in
common, and won't achieve much beyond that except by accident.  And
maybe that's what people want - I'm not passing judgement in saying this
:-)

Damon