All I can say is WTF. I apparently have missed this whole conversation, I have no idea whats going on here. I for one, Bill, I am sorry to see this happen, because you are great, and I only know of a fraction of what you must put in, and I know there is a lot more that you do. I for one joined this group, what it must be at least a year by now, so that I could get involved with the Linux community. Under you as well as the work of Bob and others. I do not want to see this group lose the momentum that it has been gaining. I don’t know what has happened here, but Bill, you did great, and I certainly respect whatever you yourself decide to do. I know that you personally have put in more than your share, but no matter what happened, there is no reason for anyone to lob insults to another member of the group, no matter what has occurred. And there appears to be a lot of misunderstandings occurring here. I have erased this particular line that I am attempting to type several times, because I have no idea what has occurred to cause Bill's stepping down, nor do I have any right to try to say to opine on things that I still have a limited technical knowledge of. I hope that this is all settled out , all I can say is huh??? To some of the things that I am reading from everyone, and to Bill, you are the man, and I Hope that you can rethink this over, I know you were asking for more involvement, I put my hat in the ring, and I am sorry, if I was not loud enough to do so since then, but you guys, I hope this gets situated, because we are THE group for Jacksonville, and it would be a shame if we lose our en persona meetings.
-----Original Message----- From: William L. Thomson Jr. [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 7:35 PM To: Jax-LUG Subject: Stepping down as admin, leader, etc Given the lack of technical value coming from the mailing list and group as of late. I am not seeing the return on investment I would like, or any respect for efforts put forth from other long time JaxLUG members. Some of which I rather avoid and not expose myself to if I do not have to, or any accusations of harming the community, etc. What is rather unfortunate is those that have not attended regularly or in some time. Have not seen the meeting numbers grow and all the new faces and blood. Constantly casting opinions/stones as to how to grow the community, and saying it should be larger. Without them actually doing their part, or realizing what has and is going on in the present and recent past. Much less who is making it happen. With that said I am stepping down as system administrator for the JaxLUG. Which I had no intention of ever being. Just one day there was no mailing list, till I did something. Few months later problems with the wiki. Resulting in months of wiki data lost, most of which I had entered. Thus I took that over as well. Then problems with DNS, so I took that over. Finally as of last month domain expiration, which I handled and paid for. Thus how I came about to be system administrator was simply picking up the ball when others dropped it. Which any other JaxLUG member could have done any one of those things, rather than me doing it all. No one else in the community stepped up, so I did it all. That is the same for leading meetings, getting presenters, coordinating a venue/location, buying pizza most times (in the past drinks as well), etc. None of which I will be doing going forward. My level of participation is yet to be decided, at this point considering none at all, or at most be very minimally active. I have sent Mike Rathburn per his request and offer a copy of the JaxLUG virtual machine. That is a complete system, less a kernel and some stuff. But has all configs and data for the wiki and mailing list. Along with information on the domain name, so he can take over DNS as well. At this point Mike Rathburn will be the new JaxLUG Systems Administrator. If others want to step up with organizing meetings, etc. That is up to the community moving forward. I will see about passing IRC channel ops to another, but thats pretty moot at this point as far as I am concerned. Please do not email me privately off list about this. I do not want to discuss any of this any further. I have done more than my share, and really just want to be done with it all and move on. You won't be hearing anymore from me on the matter, and likely any others :) Thanks its been a hoot! -- William L. Thomson Jr. Systems Administrator Jacksonville Linux Users Group --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
