[wellylug] Re: Formalising WellyLUG - revisited

[Sam]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 12:07:37PM +1300, Damon Lynch wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 01:01, Jamie wrote:
> > >
> > Hear hear! Linux itself came to be without a committee or formal
> > structure. WTF do we need it? 
> 
> So naturally you are going to issue a public letter to the Gnome
> Foundation telling them their structure is not needed and they should
> just hang out over IRC and get together from time to time?
> 
> Linus is renowned for his organisational and people skills.  For the
> rest of us, structure helps, not hinders.

Wellington Linux User Group is just that - a user group.  We aren't a
kernel development group, and neither are we a foundation managing
multiple open-source projects.

While I disagree with the implication that software development does
not require any degree of organisation, I don't feel that we have a 
great need for such a rigid committee structure or complex EULA (for
want of a better word) to get together and chat about what we're doing
with our Linux systems.

I agree that we do need people to organise what's going to happen at
meetings, keep the website updated, make sure we have a venue and so on,
but these people could just as easily be decided by general concensus on
the mailing list as at an AGM.

Regarding installfests and similar events, I like the idea proposed a
couple of days ago regarding deciding on a group to organise them on a
time-by-time basis.

 - Sam
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