On Aug 19, 2005, at 23:24, Jon maddog Hall wrote:
As to Bill Sconce's comment:
1. The purpose of the group is: meetings.
This, to me, is like saying the purpose of life is: taxes.
Perhaps the major method that we use to move GNHLUG forward is
meetings (as
opposed to other methods), but "meetings" should not be the end reason
why
GNHLUG exists.
If I may attempt to tease some additional meaning out of Bill's
suggestion, what a perhaps subconscious part of his brain was saying
is, "The unique advantage of the group is the community it engenders,
made possible by real meattime."
Meeting in person enables a higher level of interpersonal relationship
than is currently achievable in cyberspace. So I'll post a message to
gnhlug-discuss about the kernel because I know the guys there, even
though there may be more 'appropriate' folk on lkml. It's hard for
most people to know more than a couple thousand other people, so I
wouldn't expect the lkml guys to know me nor feel particularly
motivated to help me, especially if I had a dumb question. After all,
what have I done for them other than ask them repeatedly to fix broken
stuff?
I wouldn't ever want to shun those who only want to participate in the
lists, or perhaps are immobile, but I don't think they'll ever get the
most possible out of GNHLUG.
maddog's right, the meetings aren't the end-product, but they are the
gasoline (or biodiesel in Bruce's case) that makes GNHLUG go.
-Bill
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