GTALUG @ LinuxWorld Canada Planning meeting

[Evan Leibovitch]

Hi, Colin. I was hoping that someone who was _on_ the Board would be 
able to reply but I appreciate your attempt to explain the situation on 
their behalf.

Colin McGregor wrote:

>Well, a response to your offer was considered at the last board meeting, and I gather that a formal response is being written.
>  
>
I guess it just puzzles me how things have made it to the point where 
formal responses need to be written. I suppose that others on this list 
ought to consider the bureaucracy necessary at GTALUG to deal with 
offers of help.

It's a shame, really. LUGs from around the country (not to mention all 
the major vendors) see the value -- the necessity -- of working together 
to accomplish the community's shared goals. To date, GTALUG appears to 
be the lone exception to that ethos, I hope that may change.

>For Monday's meeting I want to keep the focus on what needs to be done to make the GTALug booth a success on it's own.
>
I'll take that as a rejection. No matter, the same night I've been 
invited to participate at the KWLUG meeting. Obviously we'll prefer to 
go where we're wanted.

Anyone wanting to participate at the CLUE booth will be welcomed without 
the need for a formal letter of response. We'll be focusing on CLUE's 
projects (see http://www.cluecan.ca/projects ), and specifically the 
need to address
- the attack on open source now being waged in Ottawa (in the copyright 
law debate, post-Bulte)
- the well-known hostility towards open source at Queen's Park
- awareness of the Canada-wide network of Linux and other open source 
user groups

If you're interested, just write or talk to me, Herb, or Matt -- or come 
to the next NewTLUG, HLUG or KWLUG meeting. The offer to collaborate 
with GTALUG is still wide open.

- Evan

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