Paul Reiber wrote:
> The available of access to the LUG hierarchy/overview/whatever page -
> everywhere - is not only warranted, but called for in a big huge
> "common sense" sort of way.
>   
Why is it warranted, and how does common sense call for it?  (I wanted 
to ask Christian the same thing but by the time I got home I was 
distracted with packing.)

Christian says: "it makes sense to have the groups link on every page to 
help people extend this LoCo to their local Linux Groups."  Why does 
that make sense?  The LoCo isn't a social club, and I think it would be 
a huge mistake to try and transform LUGs into Ubuntu advocacy groups.  
We're here to convince people to use Ubuntu.  That's a huge contrast 
with what LUGs tend to be, which is one of the endless variations that 
can be found in a group of people who use Linux and meet regularly.

I agree with Neal that the LoCo page is a tool for the LoCo to focus our 
efforts.  I've said it before: there needs to be a far better answer to 
finding LUGs than currently exists, and I really wish the energy that is 
being focused at misusing one of the LoCo's pages would be directed 
towards creating a solution to the problem of how to find a local LUG or 
contributing to the existing resources that Grant claims exists (in 
opposition to my claim that I've yet to see a current maintained list).  
I would support a link to such a resource from our wiki pages in a 
flash--although probably not across each and every single page.  I 
jumped at the chance to be a distribution point for Bay Area LUG fliers 
at OSCON.

But the way the Group project subpage is being promoted--to the 
exclusion of its parent page which Grant keeps unlinking--really baffles me.

-- 
Nathan Haines
Ubuntu California Local Community Team


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