TLUG and government grants

[Scott Elcomb]

On 12/5/05, William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 01:01:10PM -0500, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
[...]
> > Rather than GTALUG coming up with ideas that it would
> > like other people to do, why doesn't it offer to the
> > community some initiatives that _it_ wants to do?
>
> I believe I did exactly that.  If you want use GTALUG Inc as (Linux) NPO
> umbrella, then you have my support at the board.
[...]
> The project needs to be run by someone who can naviagate the Gov grant
> system, as well as organize incoming/outgoing of computer parts.  All
> I'm saying is, that's not me.  But, I'll help from my side of thing, as
> best as I can.
>
> If you and CLUE have idea that you'll like to share with the rest of
> Linux community, then I'll work with you.

I think part of the problem is that, as a community, we are still
facing a bit of an identity crisis - what part(s) do (or better, can)
we play in the world-at-large?

Earlier this year, I mentioned the idea of working groups at an
executive meeting - I still think the idea has merit.  There was some
concern about fracturing (in the form of special interest groups),
though I don't see that as being an issue that can't be overcome if
these working groups are based on community iterests as opposed to
special interests.

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Scott Elcomb

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