[wlug_org] NZLUG discussion

[Jamie Baddeley]

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On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 23:46 -0700, Brent Wood wrote:
> Sweet, but are we talking about WLUG or NZLUG. I for one don't see them a=
s
> synonymous, but all your rebuttals to my suggestions for NZLUG simply say=
,
> "hey, but WLUG already has these." So if WLUG already does that, what is =
the
> role you see for NZLUG?=20

Err, providing the value of the content but reducing the parochialism?

Sometimes labels are everything. That I think, is Mark's point.

I don't think anyone will disagree that nationalising the Lug concept is
a good idea. All we're doing now is arguing over the detail.

Wasting time bickering/debating/whatever over these seemingly trivial
points is counterproductive and we should support people who have the
time and energy to put into this effort.

[expletives follow]
Meanwhile we have fucking Microsoft attending LUG meetings and
convincing people that where they're coming from is OK. It's not fucking
OK, it's pretty fucking far from ok. Bill Gates described Linux as
Cancer. Sadly I will stoop to his level. Microsoft staffers attending
our LUG meetings is cancer for our LUG. Before you know it they'll be
presenting 'shared source' as a viable alternative and tempting the
easily led with bar tabs.

We need to move. Now.

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Anyway.. moving right along.

To give NZLUG some legs you really need representation from every
region. You achieve a couple of things with this: 1) Bods to do stuff 2)
Buy in at a regional level.

I'd suggest a couple of reps from each LUG, reason being a) buddy system
works b) redundant systems are reliable c) more bods to do stuff.

Personally I'm all for repurposing the content that we've already
generated at a regional level. If the regions support that then hell
yes. Why reinvent the wheel? We don't need to write new source code all
the time. Why not just hack at what we've got?

Once we've got some form of representation from the regions then that
has some form of mandate to make claims about being an nzlug.

What will the NZLUG do? I don't know. Let the representatives sort that
out.

jamie










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