I just wanted to say that I completely agree with Christopher. John, you kept saying that we had acomplished nothing, but I felt we acomplished quite a bit (throughout the whole evening, even at the start) through interesting and lively debate of a whole range of issues that are relevant to CLUG, whether or not they had anything to do with the "motion".
I for one thoroughly enjoyed myself at that meeting. I thought there was a lot of interesting discussion, which is good to have, and which the formal structure of "address the motion" really kills dead. I have belonged to other, more formal societies in the past, and always found their meetings rather rigid and boring for that very reason. The way CLUG is structured at the moment (anarchy, chaos, undirected / restricted discussion) is a refreshing change, and one of the reasons why I like being around y'all so much :) If the meetings were made more formal, I think I would lose interest and stop attending. I don't want to shout my point too loudly, but I think it needs to be said that at least someone out here likes CLUG just the way it is, and doesn't want it to change (although I do think the committee for arranging meetings is a good idea, but that's as far as I think it should go). It's a group of users, by the users, for the users - and I'd like to see it stay that way. I think there are plenty of others who would agree with me (well, I hope?), but I never hear them speak up... [geez, I'm in a ranting mood today aren't I, sorry folks] Cheers, Gareth ps. a big thanks to everyone who makes it work the way it does at the the moment :-) On Thursday 30 January 2003 11:47, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 23:26, John S Veitch wrote: > > Hello All > > > > My vision for the Canterbury Linux Users Group was very soundly > > defeated last night. There was little aspiration among those in > > attendance to make the group into a strong dynamic and effective > > organisation. > > John: Don't forget NZ is a free country, therefore you - to use the Open or > Free Source parlance - have every right to exercise the "fork option". > Speaking entirely for myself, I find that the delightfully chaotic, > gregarious and free interchange of ideas and fellowship with similarly > minded people is what makes the evening.
