Point by point discussion of indra's mail
> idea. For one, email ids can/does change. For
> another I personally
> value my privacy very much, to give anyone food for
> spam, so I don't know how many will like a solution
> like that.
Then maybe we should use passwords ? :)
>
> About distributing ids to the members was exactly
> what I thought of initially. But here again the
> logistics of such an
> operation in not entirely in our favor. Let me
> explain why I say that:
>
> 1. We have a certain number of floating membership,
> ie people join and leave. In terms of member
> turnover we have about
> 2 - 3 members leaving the list every month.
>
It's their responsibility to get the member ship cards
... not yours .
> 2. How does the actual distribution of the IDs take
> place, who keeps the records....please bear in mind
> that we don't
> have any office yet (although we are on the look out
> for one)?
>
What i might suggest is that a format be decided on
and a jpg made for it. anyone who wants an id takes a
printout of the jpg . Attaches it to a pice of card.
sticks his picture in the rectangle provided, brings
it to an ilug meeting . From the ilug funds a rubber
stamp is made and a designated individual ( someone
not likely to leave the list ) signs the card and
photograph and stamps it with the ilug-cal stamp.
That way it becomes the responsibility of the members
to get their cards made.
> 3. Who has/have the spareable time to back these
> activities...If nothing we would need to issue
> photo-identity
> cards....who goes to the market to get it done??
In this case only one person would have to spare the
time to 1. get the rubber stamp and 2. sign cards. but
that would be only at ilug meetings.
>
> 4. Even if we are getting the ids made, unless we
> have a sizeable chunk of our members opting for it,
> the cost of
> operation will be too high.
I feel this way it is almost zero cost.
>
> 5. The membership ids wouldn't come free of
> cost....I have made an internal proposal to some of
> the key-members of our
> LUG, they could be available on an annual basis,
> against a fee of in the range of 200 - 300 rupees.
( one time ? or annual ?)
That does seem vey much in the spirit of linux to
me... :) ( Or it could be that I'm stingy :)
> the money can be
> used to fund ILUG-Cal activities. In return the
> card-holding members can get access to all the
> special price
> discounts/benefits that we may be able to get from
> vendors/dealers/distributors as we interact with
> them in due course.
> The cards will also be required to access the
> library (a s/w repository and books/magazines as
> well) which is in
> process of being setup in a modest way, as no issues
> can be made without some sort of IDs or record.
who will be looking after the library - sounds like
work :(. A user group should be FUN !!:) not work :(
>
> [The card-holding membership will also be a possible
> criteria for having voting rights in the AGM (annual
> general
> meeting) of the LUG, after we register ourselves as
> a Registered Society under the West Bengal Societies
> Registration
> Act, 1961. This is not a luxury but a requirement as
> without a registration we can't open a bank a/c and
> without an
> account handling of the increasing funds of the LUG,
> as well as accepting checks from sponsers become a
> major problem.]
>
Hmmm if the funds are increasing then why do you need
membership fees.
Nothing will cut down membership like membership fees.
If it costs more to join the lug than to get hold of a
copy of linux then why would anyone want to join the
lug ? ( I bought an old copy of a pc-quest cd for 50
rupees. that's the cheapest i've seen linux going for
)
> 6. All these activities as I have outlined above
> require time and quite a bit of leg-work. And is
> only possible if more
> members come forward to lend a hand with these
> activities.
>
>
> Your thoughts on this folks??
>
> --Indra.
I appreciate that there may be others with other ideas
- please go ahead and express them . Discussion is
good
as all the JAPH ers say "there's more than one way to
do it":)
Robin
p.s indra looks like xinerama is incorporated into
xfree86 4.0 , metro-x won't work for me as no tnt2
support.
Does linux support agp cards? i guess it must right ?
still trying to make out gglib.
I don't want to be too specific about the proxy
details on the list cause my company wouldn't
appreciate. It's a http-only proxy so I guess I need
to use http proxy for ftp .when I select that option
in gftp (?)the username and password fields grey out.
But i need to supply a username and password to the
http proxy.
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