[wellylug] Very Important: Meeting of 13th Feb 2005

Jim Cheetham jim at gonzul.net
Tue Feb 14 15:02:33 NZDT 2006


On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 02:57:08PM +1300, John Fouhy wrote:
> On 14/02/06, Jim Cheetham <jim at gonzul.net> wrote:
> > What sort of events do you forsee that need someone to be "in charge"?
> 
> But, yeah, there would be the advantage that we could have someone go
> up to business X and say, "Hi, I am the president of the Wellington
> Linux Users' Group.  We want to run [an event] and would you like to
> sponsor us with space/equipment/other stuff?"
> 
> It also helps with avoiding personal liability, in case you're running
> a show and a user's linux-controlled mecha spontaneously achieves
> sentience and goes on a rampage through Tokyo or something.

Excellent - two scenarios, one likely and one not :-)
No chance of getting sponsorship around here ...

-jim




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