Andrew Sinclair wrote: > On 24 July 2010 05:45, Michael K <[email protected]> wrote: >> Marghanita da Cruz wrote: >> I hope this doesn't come across the wrong way, but I want you to know >> that long ago when I was on the committee for SLUG, I made a serious offer >> to assist with managing the website and content, since at the time I was >> attending the website design course at Granville. Nobody ever followed >> up with me about this, so I didn't pursue it since I had the distinct >> impression nobody was taking me seriously. >> >> Of course, my membership of SLUG lapsed long ago and I haven't been to >> a meeting since the venue changed from UTS, since I live in Bankstown, >> and am restricted to public transport. >> >> I don't wish to become engaged in any flaming, even though I feel there >> are several things SLUG could do to improve it's public profile. All I >> want to say is that the offer is still there to help out if you wish to >> contact me. I imaging much of the admin could be done off-site, and >> since I am still currently not working, I have plenty of free time. >> >> Anyway, if you think I can be of some help, please feel free to contact me. >> > Before anyone responds to this, I want to be first to say that the > Linux community are the hardest working group of trade professionals I > have seen in my professional career, let alone my natural life span. > In my experience with these people, I have found them to be the most > accommodating, even when the pressure is on, and the guests are > misbehaving. It is unwise for you to accuse them of not taking you > seriously. > > Please be aware that since UTS have removed the pro-bono rental of > their room for this community, we have been hard pressed finding > places that were able to accommodate us, as we jumped from venue to > venue. These locations were within the CBD but the distances between > them were sparse. > > The employee culture does not work so well for the Linux community. > Many of the people involved are contractors, some with their own > companies. Work is allocated on a best offer basis. It is inefficent > to assign complex tasks to people and properly assess their > suitability for said task. Participants are expected to use their own > discretion and assign their own tasks, based on the goals of the > community. > >
You didn't even have the decency to say: "Thanks for the offer, Michael, but just now we don't need your services." As I said, you won't even take a decent offer. Stuuf this for a laugh. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
