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

[Jim Cheetham]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 09:30:55AM +1300, Jethro carr wrote:
> > Also hook up to the Green community - especially with Nandor speaking
> > for Open Source, perhaps we should help expose Greens to what's going
> > on?
> 
> I don't belive that having Nandor's support is beneficial. Nandor is
> known for being "out-of-there" and having his support deters many people
> (especially businesses) from seeing Linux as mainstream.

That's not especially relevant. The Green Party have an official line on
Open Source, and they've chosen Nandor as the spokesman. Don't ignore
the message because you don't like the messenger.

(Even if the Party only have a stand on OSS because Nandor has one
doesn't change that, either)

All I'm suggesting is that people associated with the Greens might be
interested to know more about Open Source, because their Party is
talking about it. And therefore we're in a good place to encourage them
to find out more ...

> Linux groups in NZ should be targeting parties like Act, who want to
> promote the use of open source, and who are usually reasonably well
> respected.
> 
> Politics are really something left for NZOSS todo though - Isn't that
> their purpose?

That sounds contradictory - you're saying that WellyLUG should target
political parties, but politics should be left to NZOSS? I don't
understand your point.

-jim