On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, John Holbrook wrote:
> I'm not sure what vision everybody has for the CLUE but I really see it > as more of an umbrella organization for all the LUGs across Canada. An > organization that can give LUGs more clout with governments and other > groups. This needs to be defined. If Advocacy is a primary purpose of CLUE, then it is going to be structured differently than it would be otherwise. The resources needed will also be different. I think before collecting funds, CLUE needs to decide what is's purpose is. If you try to be all things to all people, you will end up being nothing for anybody. Note: I am personally very interested in advocacy work, but am not a member of a local LUG (obviously there is one in Ottawa, and an active one as far as I know). What is of interest to an average "Linux" user who wants to join a users group, and someone trying to work with others to convince governments to understand/adopt Open Source, are quite different. --- Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/> See http://weblog.flora.ca/ for announcements, activities, and opinions Getting Open Source and Linux INto GovernmentS | No2Violence in Politics http://www.flora.org/dmca/forum/942 | http://www.no-dot.ca/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
