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[billt-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org]

> 
> >It would be unfortunate if you were to poison the ongoing good relations,
> >
> I have, on multiple occasions, tried to establish contact to enable
> better relations between GTALUG, NewTLUG, and other groups in the
> region. I spoke with you personally at length about the benefits of
> doing this and you appeared to agree. Yet even getting the courtesy of a
> reply to requests to the GTALUG board, directly or through
> intermediaries such as yourself and William, appears to be an impossible
> task. I have made concrete suggestions about plans to increase GTALUG
> membership, but have yet to even be heard on them by the Board. And I
> have heard offline from other area LUGs that want nothing to do with GTALUG.
> 
> If these are good relations I hesitate to ask what constitutes bad. I
> welcome any attempts to improve this situation.
> 
You may not be aware of this, but Herb is one of the executives in GTALUG, so if NEWTLUG wants to 'establish contact' all Herb has to do is pick up a phone and call a special meeting of the executive.

WestLug's representation in GTALUG also happens to be one of the board members. I could point out the even UU has a representative on GTALUG Executive but that happened completely by accident.

There are two other regular groups in Toronto, The Linux Meet Up group and the Uof T LUG. The first I approached about co-operation and they decided that it wasn't necessary, and the second we can't find a single person that belongs to this group.

There are specific educational organization and companies that we are on friendly terms with as well.

We have friendly relations with at least a dozen other LUGs within the regional area, from Kingston to Kitchener to New Market. The general attitude we have taken is that we have our house to deal with and they have ther own houses to deal with, and if there ever comes up an issue that requires regional cooperation we will be ready to cooperate. We have tried to get cross postings of each others meetings on the various mailing lists, but that has been the extent of the cooperation we felt was necessary with these other groups so far. They seem to have the same belief.

Now, the question that is being asked in the GTALUG executive meetings is what exactly is your role in anything. Herb has not given any reason to believe that you or anyone else is responsible for any of the day to day jobs within NEWTLUG. We have not been contacted officially or unofficially by any of the executives of CLUE either. You claim to represent them, so when were you appointed or elected into their executive? In fact when did CLUE have an election? Since I'm a memeber of CLUE I should have been notified of the annual election.

Bill
 
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