Raja Guha wrote: > > ***Isn't this the crux of the matter, that a list with the appearances > of an open public forum is not subject to any openly stated, publicly > available aims, regulations or proceedures - even several years after > its formation?***
<snip> > If the aims of this forum had been explicit in the beginning - perhaps I > would never have started posting here in the first place - or else I > would have known the limits and expectations upfront. Heck! I even > check the ingredients list on a 50p toffee! Good points. Let us sit down (virtually, perhaps) and give ourselves a constitution: "We the LUGgers... " and so on! When the list was smaller, the members could sort out any issue with the exchange of a few messages, much like people do at a village panchayat. The need for a formal set of rules was not felt. Now that the list is growing, as the LUG is attempting big things, of course formal rules will be needed. The village and the United Kingdom do not need a written constitution. India, and now this LUG do, of course. But getting hot-headed about the lack of rules and procedures will not help. > > What? Oh! What has the list achieved since its inception? For one thing, it has brought so many of us, Linux-lovers together. That is no mean achievement. I feel it all the time, since I live away from Kol and do not have the chance to physically meet you all. > Tathagata Bannerjee stated that all but one founder member has left the > city - I have a thought - Perhaps, the wrong people founded the list! > Perhaps the list was their ticket to whereever they masnaged to run away to. Now, this is too much. I personally barely know any of the founder members. But I am aware that they did not start this list or the LUG out of selfish motives. I have been on this list long enough to have learnt that. > > But - trying to create and apply OSS for what Tathagata Banerjee in his > ignorace calls "blah blah" is what I have been doing for the past few > years at ENORMOUS expense to me and my family (as, at least, a couple > luger knows :)), and what I still continue to do. Members on this list have diverse tastes and priorities. What is serious work to one maybe "blah-blah" to another. So, here's one of aims -- and a major one -- that this list ought to pursue: get everybody to appreciate that Linux can and is being used in many ways and for many purposes, each very different from the other. Therefore, instead of losing our tempers, let us educate the ignorant -- in this case Tathagata Banerjee :-) And finally, what Raja Guha hints about his activities has aroused my curiosity. Would he please let us know more? - Manas Laha -- 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
