[wlug_org] Second draft of WellyLUG guidelines

[Jamie Baddeley]

On Sat, 2004-05-08 at 10:43, Wood Brent wrote:

> Basically fine by me. As guidelines, I don't think wording is really critical.
> They are by nature a warm fuzzy thing where it is the intent rather than detail
> that matters. (The rule is a bit different. As discussed below.)
> 
> To some extent, this whole thing is as much a mission statement as it is
> guidelines. As we are gonna propose the members approve, I suggest we do it in
> the two parts, to simplify discussion, etc, I can see putting it all in one
> basket generating discussions at cross purposes.
>  
> 
> (Since committ%% is a prohibited word, I guess mission statement prob fits in
> the same category- so please feel free to come up with a PC synonym if desired
> "Wellylug goal"? :-)
> 
Commitees are such an archaic concept, and I have spent too much time being involved in 
completely disfunctional ones. A traditional form of organising things to me seems to be inappropriate
for something such as Linux. It's just a word, but it's word that I think is wrong for us :-)

> 
> Mission statement: what are we here for?
> 
> Once that is agreed, we can look at the next step. 
> 
This is already agreed. It's Colin proposal that we all voted in favour
of the last meeting, and what I quoted in the second draft. Plus it's
what I told everyone at InstallFest :-)

i.e
our goals which are:
a) To exchange Linux and Open Source Software knowledge and experience.

b) To encourage the use of Linux and Open Source Software 

> With alternative avenues possible for advertising, we might get more specific-
> like "No advertising on wellylug or wlug_org lists". I know we can go further &
> look at "... any LUG services where the service provider prohibits it", but
> that may be more wordy than necessary??)
> 
> Summat worth noting, maybe pedantic, but I think it is Ewen's call about the
> wording on advertising, not the members, as it is his requirement we are
> describing. Not summat we vote on. Maybe keep it out of this discussion & stick
> it in as a condition of use of the web site & list, but not membership?
> 
OK. We can modify the bit that refers to mailing list rules. 

How about:

4.      No advertising on the list. If you must, then please take it
        offlist. This is a strict requirement, and is requested by our
mailing list service provider. It is done principally to prevent
unsolicted commercial advertising. Please respect this.



jamie