Linux World Updates

[Evan Leibovitch]

Bill wrote:

>Now, the question that is being asked in the GTALUG executive meetings is what exactly is your role in anything.
>
You could have always asked me; I'm not exactly inaccessible. That you 
choose to ask this in a public forum rather than private email is 
unfortunate.

>We have not been contacted officially or unofficially by any of the executives of CLUE
>
That is an absolute lie.

I sent an email to the GTALUG Board February 23rd, identifying myself as 
Executive Director of CLUE and requesting a meeting. (That role can be 
easily verified at http://www.linux.ca/drupal/clue-people).

At this meeting, I wanted to present some proposals (which are still on 
the table, of anyone's interested) that would result in increased 
revenue and membership for GTALUG and a strengthening of the regional 
user community. I also proposed sharing resources at LinuxWorld; I'd 
thought that a combined LI/CLUE/GTALUG booth would have sent a good 
message to the public and made best use of scarce resources.

I followed up with personal conversations with Christopher and William, 
who acknowledged receipt of my request.

On March 3, in frustration of not receiving any reply, I posted to this 
list:

>I have made repeated offers to to multiple GTALUG Board members regarding sharing resources (people, money, furniture, banners, card scanners , media relations, etc.)  and I'm still hoping to co-operate. If anyone on the GTALUG board is reading this, please mail me back and let's see how we can get the most mileage from working together.
>
Colin replied:

>Well, a response to your offer was considered at the last board meeting, and I gather that a formal response is being written.
>
No response, formal or otherwise, ever came.

Can we please transcend the petty bureaucracy and games playing, folks? 
There is SO much that needs to be done, and such a limited amount of 
resources. There are good people in GTALUG and CLUE and throughout the 
community, yet Queen's Park is the most anti-open-source province in the 
country. Why is co-operation necessary to help fix this so much of a 
minefield? Why is GTALUG the only user group not to respond, let alone 
work together?

- Evan

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