Hello All My vision for the Canterbury Linux Users Group was very soundly defeated last night. There was little aspiration among those in attendance to make the group into a strong dynamic and effective organisation. It's a "users group" it's for us, the users. If people want to join fine, join the list, become a user. We don't need a structure, a committee, elections or rules. We're just a list and our method is "to volunteer". If there are volunteers things happen and if nobody bothers then nothing happens. Creative anarchy.
STOP. Think. Remember the first ideas you had about computer programming. You tried to write a big long thing called "programme" and you had a few bits that didn't fit so they became "another programme 1" and "another programme 2". I expect you all know enough to know that this approach to writing software is disastrous. STRUCTURE is critical. In the next year I'd like to see us all thing a lot about the best structure for our group. The committee elected last night need to experiment with structure a little bit and report back to us about "what works" we need leadership. Here's what we did last night. (As a programme) Main Programme: Part 1 Organise the meeting Part 2 Organise the meeting Part 3 Organise the meeting Part 4 Organise the meeting Part 5 Organise the meeting End of main Programme New Programme: Look after the money New Programme: Publicity for the Install Fest. New Programme: Supper and meeting setup. New Programme: The CLUG website and email archives. It's untidy guys. It won't get better if we avoid thinking about it. You know what happens to a programme that's convoluted and confused, it becomes useless and impossible to maintain. We can do better. Regards John John S. Veitch mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Photo Available on WWW http://www.ate.co.nz/johnsveitch.jpg Adapt to Experience URL http://www.ate.co.nz/ for Virus Protection http://www.ate.co.nz/trend/
