begin quoting Andrew Lentvorski as of Sun, May 11, 2008 at 06:50:01PM -0700: > Tracy R Reed wrote: > >I'm not suggesting that we try to change anything or rock the boat but > >I'm curious: By what means does Ed have us by the short and curlies that > >we brush off this sort of thing? I'm sure I've heard it explained a few > >times before but I guess I've forgotten. Is the above intended to sound > >the way it does or is Ed really just a nice guy who doesn't express > >himself well? > > No, it is an ongoing issue. However, it is really an SDCS issue. Any > discussion about this should really be directed at them. > > The real issue is that Ed is friends with some functionary in SDCOE that > controls the issuance of rooms. The grief of dealing with Ed and Co. > isn't really large enough to warrant the effort to displace him. > > > Nobody wants to dig through this for a couple of reasons: > > 1) We have no good alternative lined up if we truly piss somebody off > and get all our rooms yanked.
"We" being SDCS or KPLUG? > 2) Nobody is willing to invest the time to create a better relationship > with somebody equivalent or higher in the SDCOE chain. The effort seems likely to piss somebody off. > 3) SDCOE really doesn't want to deal with us at all, thank you very > much. They don't get any money from us and yet have to invest some > (fairly small) amount of time dealing with us. Is there no mechanism for (token) payments? [snip] > In addition, one of the other concerns is the meeting area itself. It > is hard to find something as central as SDCOE. To top it off, we have > *free parking*. That's not likely to be true even if we get a free room > from one of the colleges. Parking is the big issue. > That having been said, SDCS has more than enough money to *pay* for > meeting rooms for quite a long time if they don't go overboard. > However, there is no particularly good reason to do so. "Why buy milk..." ? -- Free is good, but minimal payments are better. Stewart Stremler -- KPLUG-Steer@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-steer
