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

[Jethro carr]

On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 20:35 +0000, Jim Cheetham wrote:
> 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.

I didn't say that I'm ignoring the message - I'm saying that a lot of
people will. There's a difference.




> > 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.

no, I'm saying that Linux/Open Source groups in NZ should should
promoting open source to these parties, but I think that's what NZOSS
was set up to do, rather than having heaps of different lugs doing so.


-- 
Jethro Carr <jethro.carr at jedolinux.com>


www.jethrocarr.jedolinux.com

www.jethrocarr.jedolinux.com/index.php?page=cv/cv.php
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