I have become increasingly disaffected by the lack of progress and decisions the charting SLUG's future. As such I intend to form a distinct UG, in the Greater Glasgow Area, devoted to a broad range of Open Source as well as Linux issues and taking in user as well as technical views. If anyone is interested in joining me please contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wish those who continue with SLUG every success in the future. My Heart and Head are no longer with my co-creation.
This kind of response is disappointing to say the least. A lack of progress and decisions regarding the LUG in the middle of December is hardly something to get worked up about - this is a time when most people are winding down and are possibly away from keyboards.
Some good comments have been made over the last couple of weeks, and while formalised progress hasn't been decided upon, I think it's only fair to mull over further comments and thoughts over the holiday period. I notice that you didn't participate in the discussion which you yourself initiated on the 9th - any reason for that? You could have guided that thread to engage and enliven LUG members to be more proactive, but you didn't - why? You changed your mind from offering to turn up at meetings and do some content for the website at around half past eight on Monday night to forming another Glasgow LUG at about half past ten. If you attribute your change of heart to some indigestion after your dinner, I can somewhat understand, but otherwise it just smacks of impatience and offhanded irritation.
If you feel that your only way forward is to abandon the existing LUG and attempt to form a new one, then good luck to you, but it seems an extremely rash and ill-mannered decision to make. If you want to take charge of something and take it forward, why not do so with the existing LUG instead of creating a new LUG, fragmenting the community?
I suggested earlier in the month that the community that is ScotLUG become GLUG, retaining the current membership, times, goals, etc, and the ScotLUG "brand" be used as an umbrella organisation to help bring together the LUG communities in Scotland. You are suggesting further fragmenting the Scottish LUG community - can we have more details reasons why you feel this is necessary?
Please don't take any of these comments as an attack - I genuinely would like to hear your answers to my questions, and any other comments you wish to make to make your position and thinking clearer. if you still feel your only course of action is to fragment the community, I again wish you luck and also a guid new year.
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