TLUG and government grants

[William Park]

On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 03:49:33AM -0500, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> William Park wrote:
> >We are member-driven organization.  That means, we gotta have bodies
> >first, then try to coordinate.
> >
> That's not how it works.
> 
> 1) First you express a vision and realistic goals based on that vision.
> 
> 2) People choose to join based on affinity with the vision and goals.
> 
> 3) Then, based on resources at hand (people, money, technology, etc), 
> you develop plans to accomplish the goals.
> 
> I'm not complaining about the lack of #3, I agree that's premature. I'm 
> commenting on the bypassing of #1. Plans can change frequently, but 
> goals change rarely and vision should be a constant.

Are you always like this?  Even prima donna stop singing when they are
not on stage.  How many time do we have to tell you, "THAT IS NOT HOW
TLUG WORKS."

Group of Linux guys got together over beer, and that become TLUG.
Later, those guys decided to have something formal, and that brought
forth GTALUG.  It's always body first, idea second, and action third.
Other organizations may work differently.  But, different strokes for
different people.


> It was not I who changed the rules and said that TLUG was morphing into 
> a pay-to-join organization.

There you go again.  TLUG used to be just mailing list and monthly
meetings.  That will stay the same.  GTALUG is just a formal layer
created on top of that.  You've been involved with TLUG far longer than
me.  And, I fail to see why you need this explained so repeatedly.

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