WTF? Is CLUG so big that it needs to be divided? Forgive me if i'm wrong, but as one single *nix group, numbers are not huge, and this limits activity as is. I could be wrong, i'm only going by what i read here, as i am yet to get my act together and show up at a meeting myself!
Surely there is enough division in the ranks without a formal one. If your going to divide like this we may as well just have a debian users group, ubuntu, mepis, puppy, redhat, freebsd, suse, knoppix, gnome users, KDE users, and various other groups. I thought that what made CLUG CLUG was the love of things a *nix, rather then simple flavor. Variation of approach merely provides enriches our mental diet as we learn from each other what is and isn't a good idea. In fact why have groups at all if we are going to just have what we like in any given group? if we can't except the variation with in the group that makes a linux/users group interesting, then we are probably better just learning on our own. This reminds me of the Monty Python scene from life of Brian where the people revolutionary front are arguing within themselves over weather or not one of it's male members should have the right to be a woman or not... Utterly pointless! Tea drinking bureaucracy ! I'm not showing up till there's a group for amarok users toying with the idea of building a luggable computer into a suitcase :p > The club built off the "University of Canterbury Linux Users" list > requires its own, fully appropriate, name.
