TLUG's value to community ???

[William Park]

On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 11:42:59PM -0400, Paul Mora wrote:
> On 08 Jul 2005 16:47:38 -0400, Tim Writer <tim-s/rLXaiAEBtBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> > Which is precisely the problem Matt has been pointing out. He (and
> > others) have been "representing" TLUG in various ways for a long
> > time primarily through volunteer activities. For example, he
> > coordinated speakers for a couple of years. Yet he's not formally a
> > member of GTALUG and neither is he fully informed about its purpose
> > and activities. He suggested GTALUG (or rather its executive) make a
> > presentation at an upcoming TLUG meeting to let everybody know what
> > the heck they're up to. That seems pretty reasonable to me.
> 
> Me too.
> 
> I'd love to see some information on what's been going on in GTALUG, like
> - meeting minutes (or excerpts, if us "non-members" can't see them)
> - Constitution and/or manifesto, describing the purpose of the organization
> 
> I've been asking about this stuff every few months, and the answers I
> get are "it's coming real soon now", but nothing ever does.
> 
> Also, along with a presentation, a nice handout, or softcopy
> (obtainable from the GTALUG site), in the form of a FAQ, would be
> nice.

I'm opposed to this.  This takes time/money, without being tied to
revenue.

Look, people...  CLUE has cost.  I don't see CLUE going around detailing
their fiscal balance at TLUG meeting.  GTALUG is less than a year old,
and people are already complaining about us not publishing our books for
CLUE people to examine.  What is this?  It's like GM complaining about
Toyota not publishing list of their suppliers.  I get the feeling that
this is bubbling up from something that happened before my time.

Let's move forward...

My original aim was this:
    GTALUG is not doing much now.  But, we should be.  So, what do we
    (as group) want to do?  What kind of "service" should we provide?
    Who is "our community"? ...

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