Hi, ----- Original Message ----- From: "pksharma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 6:09 PM Subject: [ilug-cal] HIT as a venue
<snipped> > .. and the nice and kind professor was happy to help us out for > sooo many things .. arising out of fond memories of the past Ahem! actions speak louder than words, and the picture which emerges from Anirban's mail clearly speaks otherwise -- a lack of clarity of thought and purpose. Like I said before, nothing's wrong with a quid-pro-quo approach, but this should be clear and known to people. > having put these things for all to know, i surely would feel that > ALL the venues that have been offered at compass by visitors to > our stalls need to be listed .. and known to some .. if not all > .. so that we can do some planning All those active at COMPASS coordination effort (i.e. you, sayamindu, tathagatha, sumeet, sankarshan and myself) were in the know about what happened there. And thanks to that, you and Sumeet were able to arrange HIT as our meeting venue. [1] To the best of my knowledge, *during* COMPASS it was only HIT which offered some help.. [2] Rohit Vishal Kumar of IISWBM came with the query whether the LUG would be interested in holding a seminar there. <OFF-TOPIC> POST-COMPASS DEVELOPMENT: After becoming a LUG member, RVK *did* try to get IISWBM as LUG venue, but associated red-tape in getting the permission and the conditional approach proved difficult to work thru. It was RVK's request to keep quiet about this on the list, since he did not want to raise ppl's hopes in case it didn't work out, which is what happened. </OFF-TOPIC> If I have missed something, please write in. > i wish all these youngsters all the best .. for doing the sh*t > work of the nitty gritty of meetings, equipments, agenda fixing, > and so on <donning_list_admin_hat> This is serious, calling the task of conducting the LUG meeting as "shit work" is in *sheer bad taste*. Mind you, I'm not objecting to the language per se, but its application to the aforementioned task. Keeping in mind your past efforts which we all appreciate, it is my friendly advice that you choose your words with a little more care in future, specially where you apply them. </donning_list_admin_hat> > ..pk > > (indra should be thanked for his nice comments of sharing the > work load .. more sharing will certainly help him and also get > the work done by spreading the load) Not necessary really! Something that I heard Sumeet repeating to ppl on Saturday "You do it if you want to! But you are not obliged to do it!", really puts the point across. [a] I don't consider what I do w.r.t the LUG as a "workload"... workload is something that I have to take care of to make my living! [b] I do it bcoz I want to. So did/does plenty of other people.... in fact everyone who contributes to the LUG in one way or another. [c] All that is really needed is to stand up and start doing it, rather than expecting others to do with. Reminds me of the typical attitude of people -- "Its the govt's job to do it! Why isn't it doing it???" [d] Take the initiative (as several people have done in past), communicate with others what you want to do and get on with it. Transparent communication is an *absolute pre-condition* to ensure we are not working at cross-purposes, or against the LUG charter/agenda. Problems arise when members are not aware of whats going on. --indra. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
