On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 08:17, Raja Guha wrote: > indradg, the owner, has opined against registration as a Society for > individuals using his list.
well, as far as i am aware, indranil dasgupta doesn't own ilug-cal. all he owns is the domain name ilug-cal.org, and this mailing list of course, since it belongs to that domain. so what do we want to register? the domain name? nope, that's already registered in indra's name. this mailing list? not possible, for the same reason. is it the organisation called ilug-cal that we want to register? well, indra doesn't own that, he is only acting as the admin of the list used by that society. the reason he sometimes receives more attention than others is that he's the only founding member left in calcutta (AFAIK - correct me if i'm wrong). so i have some good news - we don't need another organisation after all. we are free to register the one we have already - our very own linux-calcutta - and solemnly present indra with a ripe fig if he tries to object, with instructions for use. make that a lemon if it suits your taste better. what will he do? refuse to let us use ilug-cal.org? we'll put up ilug-kol.org. russell will host it for free, as he has promised. there is nothing more listadmin indradg can do to stop us. the only thing we need, then, is majority support. which, alas, we didn't have the last time the topic was raised at a meet. and for very valid reasons, too, put forward by people with prior, and bitter, experience. all i can say is that they convinced me. if you want to hear them, let us make it an agenda at a meet where all the concerned people will be present. > I hope to soon post draft "Memorandum of Association" and the "Rules > and Regulations" - the texts that will define objectives, aims etc. for > the Society. please don't bother; they will be useless if you don't have enough people to go with you. do a survey first. if you can drum up enough support, why, you can do whatever you want with ilug-cal itself. but if you can't, writing memoranda will only be so much good effort poured down the drain. and i for one will hate to see effort such as yours wasted, because you have proven yourself to be a very fine draftsman and formulator, with that whitepaper kind of thing you posted about COMPASS preparation. > In brief, the primary aims will be to promote the creation, use and > adoption of OSS in govt. education and commerce, promote IT solutions > and services for those who are currently unable to avail of them due to > economic or cultural reasons - sentiments and hopes previously expressed > on ILUG-CAL. hey, but those are *still* the primary aims of ilug-cal! at least, they were so the last time i checked, which was, like, five minutes ago :-) what makes you think any of it has changed? i'm not too sure i understand the "promote IT solutions bla bla" part, but if any of the other points change, i will be one of the first to unsubscribe from the list and write a "Memorandum of Association", followers or not :-) and it's sure to be a pretty complex document, so i'll probably do it in html :-) yours in solidarity, - t. -- cogito, ergo es. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/help/faq_list.html
