Very interesting idea-local groups.
I live in Airoli Navi Mumbai. But Linuxer's
density may be too thin for this??. Fully agree
about productivity etc. Dont see why fees will
make it too formal. The money would help in
providing much better website (Server??),
increase Linux users which would automatically
throw in stadbys for the guys who are tied down
etc. Also adhocism as monetary policy is the best
killer of anything. The amount was suggested
could be a lot less if all you guys feel so. I
think some time needs to be devoted at the meet
to this issue.
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--- Kiran Jonnalagadda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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)).
>
> --
>
> Kiran Jonnalagadda
> http://lunateks.com
>
> baby.sh: while true; do echo "^G^G^G^G^G"; sed
> -e 's/food/poop/'; sync;
> sync; sleep 15; done
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