On July 27, 2002 10:30 pm, Ian Anderson wrote: (snip) > CLUE should not be showing up or organizing > local events in an area where a LUG already exists and stealing > attention away from the established LUG. At the same time CLUE should > not be showing up at national or international events until it can > clearly demonstrate that it represents a large segment of the Canadian > Linux-using population. The way it proves that is either through direct > membership, which will conflict with local LUGs, or by receiving moral > and/or financial support from the local LUGs.
Good points but I dont see the relational foundation for conflict between membership in CLUE and LUG membership.. On July 27. 2002, John Holbrook wrote; (snip) >I'm not sure what vision everybody has for the CLUE but I really see it as >more of an umbrella organization for all the LUGs across Canada. An >organization that can give LUGs more clout with governments and other >groups. In effect both of you fine folks are saying the same thing. CLUE needs to prove its existance, demonstrate it viability and validity to provide a service to local LUGs. In effect CLUE may work externally to LUGs to support the initiatives and aspirations of LUG members by taking up challenges where a national status is of greated leverage than local status but to accomplish the same objective. But thats getting close to a discussion on mission and purpose which is still to come. All I want to add a tthis time is that once those later issues are addressed and resolved the remainder is simple implementation...:) /ch --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
