On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Jeff Waugh wrote: > Or you could put your time where your mouth is, and take on the amount work > and responsibility involved in representing the SLUG membership by standing > for election at the next Annual General Meeting.
I would be perfectly happy to, except for two small facts. One is that the timing of SLUG meetings makes it impossible for me to get to. Not just difficult - impossible. The second is that I do not feel I would be suitable for a committee role - I am too confrontational, and would be disruptive in a committee environment for ANY organisation - not just SLUG. > If you're not happy with the existence or rationale behind slug-chat, > perhaps you could have brought your concerns up way back when: You misunderstand. I, pesonally, am not unhappy with either the existance or rationale behind slug-chat - indeed, if you've taken note, I have posted several off-topic replies to that list from slug recently _without_ gestapo tactics being rammed down my throat. What I object to is the fact that there is _NO_ consistancy in the "take it to slug-chat" directives - and that there are over-reactions to perfectly valid SLUG discussions like the one I just posted. There was no reason for the post calling for my post to have been sent to slug-chat. As you said - positive advocacy is good - and if highlighting Linux in corporate Australia isn't positive, what is? Despite how it may look, Jeff, I'm not picking you apart personally - I just want clear guideance and consistancy. You can leave this lie - I won't comment further on SLUG - or take it to slug-chat because _now_ it's way off topic. DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
