The problem that needs to be avoided is the duplication of services. What will impress a LUG of a few dozen members in a small town or city is not the same thing that will impress a LUG with a couple hundred members in a major centre. CLUE should not be showing up or organizing local events in an area where a LUG already exists and stealing attention away from the established LUG. At the same time CLUE should not be showing up at national or international events until it can clearly demonstrate that it represents a large segment of the Canadian Linux-using population. The way it proves that is either through direct membership, which will conflict with local LUGs, or by receiving moral and/or financial support from the local LUGs. We are assuming for arguments sake that the local LUGs have a representative membership of their areas.
Ian On Sat, 2002-07-27 at 17:27, Chris Herrnberger wrote: > All political correctness aside I would have to agree with Evan on this point. > While there has been no formal discussion on the functioning and direction of > CLUE (that will come later) my central premiss remains that CLUE must provide > a value added service to LUG's. Existance is simply not a fomula for > longevity or value added. Unless CLUE provides value added services to the > corpus of LUG's and does it effectively, both a billing equation and > reasonable grounds for existance become problematical and short term at > best. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
