TLUG Coup D'etat

[Evan Leibovitch]

Colin McGregor wrote:

>Well it would seem TLUG has been taken over and nobody told us:
>
>     http://www.linux.ca/library/linux/lug.shtml
>
>Seems Evan Leibovitch is now our glorious leader. All hail the glorious leader!!!
>  
>

Thank you. I am always appreciative of recognition by my subjects, 
though I'm at a loss to know what has recently happened for me to 
deserve it.

>(who is still somewhat sore that TLUG did not have a booth at the Real World
>Linux Show, seemingly due to (non) efforts of Evan Leibovitch's associate
>Matthew Rice).
>  
>

Truth be told, it was due to the show organizers who saw the 2003 TLUG 
booth as an embarrassment and refused to stage a repeat. Last year there 
were no TLUG brochures at the booth, but plenty of consultants using it 
as a base to hawk new clients. So show organizers asked if CLUE could do 
the double duty of representing LPI (of which it is an official 
affiliate) and the local user community, in the absence of any concrete 
proposals from TLUG to improve over what happened in 2003.

So indeed the local community was represented by the CLUE booth, which 
was the result of action (and a considerable amount of work) by Matt. 
How easy it must be for people to sit on their asses and expect others 
to do their work for them, then insult those who step forward for either 
doing too much or not doing enough. So go ahead and stay sore.

For better or for worse, TLUG is not incorporated, so it has been CLUE 
which has historically signed and taken legal responsibility for local 
community presence at RWL and all previous Toronto trade shows such as 
Comdex Canada. Colin (or anyone else) is welcome to (try to) resurrect 
the business-card stand that was the 2003 TLUG booth, in the future. You 
have a long head start for the 2005 show.

- Your glorious leader

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