begin quoting Lan Barnes as of Thu, May 12, 2005 at 11:19:08AM -0700: > On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 10:40:12AM -0700, Stewart Stremler wrote: [snip] > > All because nobody showed up and told 'em how to use a mouse. > > > > Tsk. Tsk. > > I tried to make that point. "You are the experts on the Mac," I tole > 'em. No dice.
The sad thing is... there are people who could've shown up and given 'em a lecture, if only they said that they'd like such a lecture. Some of the KPLUG talks have been just as applicable to OS X... I wonder if this might be "another" way of fostering "brotherhood" among the various SIGS -- identify which sigs have some overlap for a particular topic, and then schedule a combined-group meeting. (A big talk on Plone might be a candidate -- it doesn't matter what OS your client machine is running, so it's of equal interest to just about any SIG that would want to access the website and fiddle with it.) > There were a couple of people who got it, but the herd willfully > stampeded off, following their officers, over the cliff. Nice imagery. > 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? Nope. > 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. Yup. > 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. Or to tide 'em over, in name, through the lean years. :( > Anyway, they _really_ want to be on their own, and I'm all for it. Amen. Getting _out_ of a voluntary organization should be easier than getting in. Especially since one way to get out is to sell off all the resources, to throw a huge party, spend all the money, and then never show up again. (But start attending the "new" user-group in town...) -Stewart
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