begin quoting Gus Wirth as of Sun, May 11, 2008 at 07:41:13PM -0700: > Tracy R Reed wrote: > >Lan Barnes wrote: > >>>Ed Van Meter to Neil, Lan > >>>Again, I state for the "RECORD" no LINUX User Group > >>>SIG shall use a Room if they are not scheduled to use > >>>a specific room, unless approved by SDCOE through my > >>>coordination. Your compliance with this rule is > >>>mandatory. > > > >I'm not suggesting that we try to change anything or rock the boat but > >I'm curious: By what means does Ed have us by the short and curlies that > >we brush off this sort of thing? I'm sure I've heard it explained a few > >times before but I guess I've forgotten. Is the above intended to sound > >the way it does or is Ed really just a nice guy who doesn't express > >himself well?
I'm betting on that he's attemption to sound official and not realizing that he's sounding officious. And, since he has power, nobody is going to point this out, for fear that he isn't merely _sounding_ officious. > >I guess one means by which he has us by the shorts is that finding > >another meeting place is difficult and more effort than anyone wants to > >invest. I sure wish my employer had a suitable meeting room. The Windows <aol/> > >User Group meets at Microsoft's office. Maybe someday RedHat or someone > >will have an office in San Diego. (I would have to get a T-shirt that stated "RedHat: The New Microsoft" in that case.) > Please don't take exception to the way Ed has phrased the above. I've > known him for about 15 years and that's just the way he writes. The > point of the message is meant to be: don't just go and grab a room if it > hasn't been scheduled. You'll piss someone off. Someone who can take all > our rooms away. The principle is reasonable. The threat is... well, unnecessary. Unless _we've_ erred recently? > Andrew, if you think it's grievous to deal with Ed Van Meter then I'll > be the contact point to isolate the rest of you from the heinous exposure. I'm just wondering how we become the sort of group that doesn't have to schedule a specific room, since that's apparently an option and all. -- I do not like being threatened. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-steer
