On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Arc Riley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I believe what you are aiming for is a function already provided, or which > could be provided, through local chapters of GNHLUG. When you're talking > about general advocacy "local" is important, and a special interest group is > thus redundant with the local GNHLUG chapters. > > If you had a group of people willing to conduct special "new user" > workshops, I'm sure the chapter that meets in Nashua would be more than > happy to have them, you may even meet other people in Dover who'd be > interested in doing the local activism you've previously talked about or any > other local activism/advocacy. > > The previous email contained numerous unintentional misleading statements > about what an Ubuntu LoCo is. The LoCo is not about user support, it's not > about regular presentations or many "meatspace" user functions typically > associated with a LUG. This is covered in the URL I posted earlier about > LoCos working with other groups. > > This topic comes from discussion on needing a LUG-like group that focuses > on Ubuntu users and builds a support community for new users of that > distro. Creating an Ubuntu SIG was mentioned at the BBQ and I got Jon > involved in the discussion at that point. The discussion at hand is whether > and how such a group could be formed as a GNHLUG SIG given that we have > people interested in doing so. > > On the 501(c)(3) front, something I have a fair amount of experience with, > there's no conflict at all. The LoCo is and must remain a separate > organization, this is well documented on Ubuntu's website. It's part of the > Ubuntu project and is managed as such, despite being a local group, GNHLUG > has no more say over it's functions as it would over the Apache project. > > There's obvious membership cross-over, but this is expected. The > organizational relationship will be collaboration, not a merger, and GNHLUG > will thus never be asked to umbrella the LoCo. If the SIG is umbrella'ed > it'll be able to do certain things the LoCo will not (and vice versa). > > I believe the general GNHLUG mailing list would be appropriate for the > SIG. I agree that many different mailing lists can be fragmentizing, and by > getting new members joining through the Ubuntu SIG signed up to the general > list they'll learn about other presentations being run and thus encouraged > to attend them rather than being sandboxed in the Ubuntu SIG's camp. > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-org mailing list > gnhlug-org@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-org/ > > <humor>I'll sign up for the Ben Scott SIG</humor> Sorry, couldn't resist. -- T. Warfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] Free Leonard Peltier! http://www.leonardpeltier.org
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