Dear PLUG Community, First and foremost, the wiki was setup in order to have an open nomination for the next batch of board members and/or officers. This might not be the best solution but I personally assure everyone that at least we are trying to extend the nomination to people who can't attend the upcoming General Assembly.
I would like to request to all the people who can read this message that please give a little respect to what we tried to provide for the community. If you have any complaints or have personal anger to any of us here, confront us personally. Please do not post any foul messages. And one more thing, PLUG is NOT QSR or vice versa. It so happen that our company voluntered/offered majority of the resources that we are all enjoying right now and I hope most of you noticed it. Our company doesn't expect any recognition or whatever in return but please, just give our company a little respect. Just to inform you, our company (through Ian Sison and Jijo Sevilla) is the one providing the following services to the community: - linux.org.ph - new mailing lists - mailing list archives - old and new website - IRC - office space to conduct meetings I am personally affected to the message posted yesterday at 17:10:38 <http://linux.org.ph/ga2005/ga2005_wiki#msg20050922171038 [EMAIL PROTECTED]> as being the incumbent president of this organization and is also connected with QSR. Whoever posted this message, please e-mail me personally what you don't like about QSR and/or what we did to the community. I also would like to answer the comment posted yesterday at 18:48:44 <http://linux.org.ph/ga2005/ga2005_wiki#msg20050922184844 [EMAIL PROTECTED]>. We are trying to make PLUG as a REAL organization composed of bodies, a legal entity with by-laws that hopefully people will respect to it. One of the main reasons why I personally pushed to make PLUG as an organization and not just a mailing list was there are people who are using the name of PLUG and/or represents PLUG for their own business dealings or whatever reasons they may have. But the problem here is, the people who uses the name of PLUG didn't even give feedbacks or inform the community (if we can't call this yet an organization) that they represented PLUG for their dealings. In short, the name of PLUG was exploited. Are you aware of this? This may sound authoritative or as what the person who posted the comment, "an exclusive fraternity" but IMHO, this is for the benefit of PLUG and the community. I don't believe that the current PLUG (if that's what you believe in) is not an open community anymore. Can you define what is an open community? When the current board was elected (or maybe nominated?), there were very few who attended the GA. Where were you? For your information, I am not just setting here and enjoying the prestige of being the president of PLUG but instead, I sacrificed a lot for this organization. I allocated a lot of time for this organization trying to provide projects for the community. I even sacrificed my time for my family, my business and my other organization, the Junior Chamber (Jaycees) just for this organization. I don't even have time to relax. Yes, I represent the position of the president but it doesn't mean I am the boss. I acted (if anyone noticed it) like a slave for this organization. This may be funny to you but that's the reality. The latest scenario that I can share to you was the LinuxWorld Philippines 2005 Conference and Expo. I am the president. Yes. And I can't just leave the booth of PLUG without someone who can stay there and represents PLUG. I was there from the time we did our ingress (Tuesday night) until our egress (Friday night). I was there at the booth burning CDs for people who wants to get a copy of their favorite distribution(s) for the entire conference. Where were you? I thank the people who helped me and I don't need to mention their names. They know who they are. Being the president, I was supposed to represent PLUG especially during the panel discussions conducted at the track 4 of the conference. But where was I? I was at the booth (again) burning CDs and/or stayed there just to have someone in the booth. You may asked, if I was a good leader, I should delegate the work to my subordinates. Again, I thank the few people who REALLY helped me during the said conference. But where were you? Everybody was busy. Everybody has work. Everybody were engaged. If that's the case, don't you think that I was also supposed to be with my clients during those days that I sacrificed my time for the conference and PLUG, and earn for a living? Where were you? Well, maybe you're busy. Can't you just SSH to the venue where I needed you? Oh, maybe you have a firewall that prohibits you to go out from wherever you were during the conference. Now, I challenge you. I challenge anyone who can sacrifice theirselves just for PLUG and bring back (if that's what you're looking for) the open community. You don't need to wait for someone who will nominate you. If you are very interested and care about PLUG, stand up and nominate yourself and express your interest to be the next president of PLUG or any position you want. And make sure that after your term, you will be proud of yourself that you were able to accomplished projects when you were still carrying whatever position it may be. I would like to remind you, that being a leader(slave) of this organization, you should spend your own money and time if you really concerned with PLUG and with your position. Don't expect that you will get something or an honorarium from being an officer of this organization. Good luck. --- MARVIN T. PASCUAL E-mail: mpascual AT qsr DOT com DOT ph Tel. No. +63 2 9287776 Mobile No. +63 918 4115188 Yahoo! Messenger ID: bintut GNU/Linux User No. 247127 _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
