Ben, I understand your issue of "fairness" and "balkanization", but I also think if we have a simple and fair way that three or more people interested in a distribution can get together under the banner of "GNHLUG", that this will help everyone. I think that a "Red Hat SIG" would also be appropriate.
I still remember DECUS and the fact that they had many SIGs which people could join (or vacate) at will. The SIGs allowed people to specialize and grow in various technical topics. I could see a "newbie SIG" as a portion of this, or a "systems administrator SIG", a "hardware modder SIG", etc. I do think there should be a minimum criteria of some sort to create one, so there would not be zillions of them, but just as we have different groups physically, we can have some latitude for various needs (as we do with Ruby and Python today) Warmest regards, md -- Jon "maddog" Hall Executive Director Linux International(R) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 80 Amherst St. Voice: +1.603.672.4557 Amherst, N.H. 03031-3032 U.S.A. WWW: http://www.li.org Board Member: Uniforum Association Board Member Emeritus: USENIX Association (2000-2006) (R)Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in several countries. (R)Linux International is a registered trademark in the USA used pursuant to a license from Linux Mark Institute, authorized licensor of Linus Torvalds, owner of the Linux trademark on a worldwide basis (R)UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the USA and other countries. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-org mailing list gnhlug-org@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-org/
