-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 29 July 2002 09:58, you wrote:
> Understood, however this _can_ change. =) Yes, but should it? > Otherwise, what exactly is a > LUG's purpose in life? Just to gather around the fire and trade war > stories and feel good about using Linux? That's why I started attending. (Well, that, and the fact that it's the best Linux tech support in the area that I know of.) > I think LUG's would have a > vested interest in helping promote the "Gospel of Linux", which can't be > done on effort alone, it takes funding. And if many of these geeks feel > uncomfortable about the commercial entities anty-ing up to the party, > this is their chance to put their $ where their .... well uno how it > goes. As Evan so succinctly stated, attorney's [whether one likes them > or not] are a necessary entity, as well as expert, knowledgeable advice. > This sometimes doesn't come free. Perhaps at some point CLUE might need > a professional executive, someone working full time to further the > aims/ideals of CLUE and it's membership. I think it's a good idea for CLUE to be a legal entity with some such structure. I don't have a problem with the local LUG (ELUG) organizing some sort of fundraiser with the proceeds going to CLUE for the purpose of promoting Linux on a national scale. However, the idea of CLUE coming to LUGs and asking them to start charging for membership to pass that money along to a group the people may not have joined is not something I'm comfortable with. (I haven't been reading most of the debate, so I could be comletely misreading what you've said above. If so, I apologize.) LUGs should decide individually if they want to charge for membership, and what they should do with that membership money. If they choose to pass it along to CLUE, fine. If not, that's their choice, although it may not be the best thing for nationwide adoption of Linux. If they want to help out CLUE in some other way, that's that LUG's choice. > > For those who think this only applies to small lugs, ELUG is one of the > > bigger LUGs in Canada. > > And "E" stands for...? Edmonton. - -- - - Blaine http://www.ualberta.ca/~wdowler ICQ: 24893016 We don't call them AOL Comics because of their AOL-Time Warner owners, we call them AOL Comics because it bugs them. -- Bill Jemas (of Marvel Comics) about DC -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9RWhrLvh4eqo2mT0RAhdHAJ0XJyIx4gJkkwsdq4dv240l/6N4dACfauBC Krrxs1CFo5rPXwq8dtbn8LY= =QZ8K -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
