On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 10:40:12AM -0700, Stewart Stremler wrote: > begin quoting Lan Barnes as of Thu, May 12, 2005 at 10:09:01AM -0700: > [snip] > > My favorite quote from that meeting was from a disgruntled and > > self-satisfied member of SDMUG who said "I've been a member of SDMUG for > > 8 years, and in that time the San Diego Computer Society has NEVER ONCE > > sent anyone to our meetings to tell us anything about how a Mac works!" > > > > O perfidious SDCS! > > I never realized that they WANTED someone outside their group to come in > and give a presentation about something in their domain. Shoot, I > didn't think that ANY sig might want that. > > > You know, they're right -- they really do need to be off by themselves. > > All because nobody showed up and told 'em how to use a mouse. > > Tsk. Tsk. > > -Stewart
I tried to make that point. "You are the experts on the Mac," I tole 'em. No dice. There were a couple of people who got it, but the herd willfully stampeded off, following their officers, over the cliff. Karma has been mentioned, but here is something more concrete that I've observed in years of UGs, in and out of SDCS: UGs shrink and expand. Today's big UG will be tomorrow's marginal one. I was in the Apple CP/M UG when it was _big_. Anyone seen any signs of it recently? One of the good reasons to spread our fixed costs of insurance/corporate registration and our room acquisition in one organization is it spreads the risk as well as the cost. If Kplug or PCUG or any other shrinks to a size where having its own 501-3 is too expensive, the others take up the slack. SDMUG is big now and it may stay big forever. If so, good for them. But if not, there will be no buffer of other groups to keep them from blowing away. Anyway, they _really_ want to be on their own, and I'm all for it. -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-steer
