[wlug_org] Re: NZLUG discussion

[Tony Wills]

At 14:08 11/07/2005, Mark Foster wrote:

>I checked.
>mail nzlug-discuss-request@nzlug.org.nz
>with "subscribe" in the body of the message.
>
>Note this isnt really for the general public, as that will just get too
>noisy. Thus why ive kept the sub details relatively quiet.
>
>Not into keeping secrets - just keeping things moving. (Ever tried to make
>a decision by committee? :P)


I understand your sentiment about committees and decision making, and I 
accept your defacto invitation to join as you have posted the address 
publicly - but I think it needs to be explicitly an open forum (ie open to 
anyone who is interested) if you expect the re-direction of nzlug to be 
seen as inclusive.  Besides it is a "discussion" list, I was under the 
impression that the main body of members made decisions as you didn't have 
an elected governance anyway ;-).

There are plenty of ways of dealing with disruptive/noisy elements if they 
occur.  At this stage you ought to be calling for the widest input, and not 
have restrictions either limiting access or knowledge about how to access 
(and not restrict to just representatives of other groups).
Hopefully I might be forgiven in thinking that, mirroring the spirit of 
open-source software, the above should go without saying.

Yes you might get heated discussions but if we don't take into account all 
views, NZLUG will not be reaching out but just perpetuating the status quo 
(It's easy to make decisions, more difficult to make the right decisions ;-)

Also does that list have archives so we can see what has gone before?

Tony.

PS Mark, take a deep breath and smile, you're doing really well at good 
humouredly fielding our endless queries :-) :-)