terrence d'souza wrote:
>
> ILUG should be registered as a public trust
> (suggestion).
> ILUG must charge a nominal membership fee. Fees
> should be around Rs.1200/- yearly. College
> students may be offered a discount of 25%. School
> students Xth and below should be free.
[snip]
> So all you "freeloaders" start paying up.
With an attitude like this, it won't be long before the LUG splits into
two.
Collecting money to pay for the domain is fine, but collecting an annual
membership fee, nominal or otherwise, is not.
Please let's not get involved in monetary aspects here. Many of us on
this list are here simply because we're interested in Linux for
personal/group productivity or intellectual curiosity, not because we're
on a mission for world domination.
If the group gets too formalised, we'll just stop bothering about it,
sticking to other more open meeting places instead (ICQ/IRC/Linux
sites).
IMO, we should make the contribution to the domain name entirely
voluntary, and stop there. Paying up to attend the meeting shouldn't be
compulsory.
I know that I was a proponent of registering the LUG as a society just a
few weeks ago, but now I feel that taken with too much zeal, this could
actually have adverse effects. Guys like Sagar, Amit, Mayuresh and me
tend to disappear for months at a time, my work schedule being the cause
in my case. A formal system would be simply too rigid for us. I would
rather meet people on IRC than remember to update my membership to a
society every once in a while.
If you still don't get it, try to recall the Microcomputer User's Club.
They started the way we did, some 15 years ago. They still meet once a
month, but does anybody who's not a member even know of them now?
The formalities of a society can hamper our efforts to spread awareness
of Linux. I'm not fully against a society either. It could help promote
ourselves as a group. It's just that this is critical terrain.
And now to dig up another dead rat:
There was talk on this list a long time ago about creating smaller LUGs
around the city. I don't see anything wrong with this if the intention
was only to make it easier for people in a particular area to meet more
frequently. It only starts to get nasty when things like "Vashi LUG
members are not allowed to attend Ghatkopar LUG meetings," or "the
Colaba LUG does not recognise the Bombay LUG as a parent body" happen. I
think we ought to let people list themselves on the site by geographic
region and perhaps by areas of expertise (dangerous territory again).
That would make it far easier to find people in your area if no one on
the LUG seems to understand.
If anyone here is interested, I'm in the New Bombay area. I almost live
out of office (sorry Deepak, that was my normal sleeping time when you
came in (did I get your name right? I was too sleepy then)).
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