Please! disagree! I wanted to open debate! Still, you dodged the point about the money. Granted, if it is my insurance denenro, I really could care less. At that point. For obvious reasons.
Others might care. Should I allow that a trust fund be set up for the BRLUG if there isn't one family member left? I do no not want to be a pain, but I do want to plan for my death. Lord knows, I've seen enough of it to know it happens to us all. What do the BRLUG by-laws stipulate? --- John Hebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doug, > > I respectfully have to disagree again. I don't agree > that a totally separate > Linux group at LSU would somehow "take away" from > anyone's efforts at BRLUG. > By that logic, I should not start a Gonzales area > LUG. Does an effort at LSU > have to be LUG at all? I still say just start a > mailing list at LSU for > Linux related topics and let it rip. If something > grows out of it, then > great, let it grow. But starting out big first can > result in that effort > collapsing on itself. Is your thinking that you > don't have enough time to > put into it and consider that it being part of BRLUG > would somehow give the > effort some lift? > > I still say that what is needed is to start a > mailing list somewhere on the > lsu.edu domain and invite people who have expressed > an interest and those > who may be interested. And then spraypaint Tux > graffiti all over campus. > **This is humor. I'm not condoning vandalism.** > > I say let a thousand LUGs blossom, to suit whatever > purposes makes em > different. Linux and the free|open source software > movement is > non-heirarchical. You are still thinking Cathedral, > when you should be > thinking Bazaar. > > Ah, I think I see why you are thinking this way. You > are a military man. > Heirarchies and chains of command are imprinted into > your RNA. At ease, > soldier, you have paid your dues. > > John Hebert > > -----Original Message----- > From: Doug Riddle > To: [email protected] > Sent: 9/30/03 6:59 PM > Subject: RE: [brlug-general] LSU LUG? > > Baton Rouge Linux User Group. > > I think that sort of sums up the area. There are > not a great number of us. A thread got started on > [EMAIL PROTECTED] about a way to promote and > coordinate Open Source at LSU. > > I think that is a great cause, and at least two > slackers from BRLUG are also on campus. > > After hearing the comments of the group, I thought a > LUG would be the perfect solution. Albeit I begged > off of much a role. I now have to research irons > in > the fire, and I was not hired on as a researcher. > (The AgCenter is open-mided about where the ideas > come > from.) > > An lsu.edu mailing list and an lsu.edu site would > add > credibility to the uninitiated on-campus, but I > really > do not want to be involved with anything that would > take anything away from the BRLUG. > > I think having an established LUG with ties to > O'Riley > is a better idea. The LSU Chapter of the Greater > Baton Rouge Linux User Group. Many on-campus > members > will (or could be) permanent, but the students will > be > transitory. I think the continuity would be better > served by the involvment of the BRLUG. > > That is just a slacker's opinion, and I am very > often > really wrong. As I said, I do not want to take > anything away from the work you, John, and Dustin > have > done. i admire the both of you more than mere words > can express for your tireless efforts on all of our > behalf. The two of you do not get enough thank > you's. > Y'all have a lot of great help too, and God bless > them all. > > I am sorry I fell out picture for a while, but these > two projects, if we can get them to fruition, will > be > a great boon to local farmers, and the other to all > impared people in the south. I cannot wait until I > can show you my babies and see if y'all think > they're > pretty, but LSU is real picky about Intellectual > Property. You have to sign really ugly agreements > to > get their help, but once they wade in they don't > hold > back. It is nice to know think my ideas have merit. > > Now all we have to do is prove it. > > I'll be back, hopefully with some cash to buy some > computers for the lab. The ugly agreement does give > me a share, but I have to give it back to the > community. Trust me, the first idea is so slap your > head stupidly obvious, I cannot belive we are going > to > get a patent on it. It would be like playing poker > with the blind to keep that money. > > The second idea is to help impaired people. What > kind > of low-life takes money from the handi-capped? No, > I'll be giving my share to the BRLUG, The March of > Dimes, And the Heart and Lung assoc. If there is any > money. Hey, how about a BRLUG endowed chair at the > AgCenter? No that would be cool. We could set up a > chair to encourge the use of Open Source software > and > Open Standards in research... > > Pipe dreams for a year or two, but trust me, these > are > necessary, obvious as the nose on you face, ideas. > I > am not a genius. I just tinker, and see stuff. > > What should we do the money? I hereby promise the > BRLUG thirty percent of whatever I get from my two > current projects if all of the funds go to the > non-profit undertaking a committee elected by our > email list approves by a unanimous vote. If and > when > the BRLUG gets money, mine or anyone else's what > should we do with it? Do we owe any to the Cajun > Clicker's? > > Granted the projects I am working on are still in > research, but I have the BRLUG named on an insurace > policy in case the famliy goes together. God forbid > the state get it! > > What would we do with ten grand or ten hundred > grand? > > Food for thought. What do the by-laws say? > > Doug > > > --- John Hebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey Doug, > > > > Please define what you mean by "mini BRLUG". I > > perceive that as being an > > off-shoot of BRLUG, or somehow under the umbrella > of > > BRLUG. I don't think > > this would attract interest at LSU among LSU > > faculty. I'm sure that BRLUG > > members who are connected somehow to LSU would > feel > > free to be members of > > both, or even to leave BRLUG and join a separate > LSU > > related Linux group. > > > > The goal, IMO, is to promote Linux advocacy, not > > BRLUG advocacy. > > > > I'm not trying to raise a platoon sargeant's > dander > > here; just trying to > > understand why you want an LSU LUG to be a "mini > > BRLUG". :) > > > > John Hebert > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Doug Riddle > > To: [email protected] > > Sent: 9/30/03 2:30 PM > > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] LSU LUG? > > > > More later, but I am thinking a mini Brlug. There > > is > > interest in an LSU site to organize Open Source > > software efforts and software. There is interest > in > === message truncated === ===== Warmest Regards, Doug Riddle http://www.dougriddle.com http://fossile-project.sourceforge.net/ http://www.libranet.com -- "Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the Peoples' Liberty Teeth." - George Washington -- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com
