John S Veitch wrote:
> Hello All
>
> My vision for the Canterbury Linux Users Group was very soundly
defeated last night.
Sounds like you had the wrong vision.
I remembered this from a previous posting
>Post script:
>> > CLUG has no executive committee or formal management. It is run an
>For me a large part of why I go to the meetings is for a chin wag *not*
>to make motions to amend motions!
Making a motion is a private matter.
Oat bran helps.
I agree, if you don't like how CLUG is being run. or it isn't meeting your
needs, either a) try and fix it yourself (which I did and it didn't seem
to work well for me) or b) quit being an active member of the group (which
is the option I chose after exhausting option a). The other option is t
On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 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.
I disagree t
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 CLU
I don't wish to get offside with anyone over this, but I tend to agree
with Chris, although last night had slightly different aims to our
normal meetings.
It was important to have John's intervention last night because a
discussion on structure itself needs to be structured.
In the end we got i
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 N
John S Veitch is on permanent record as saying:
:
:It's untidy guys. It won't get better if we avoid thinking about it.
: You know what happens to a programme that's convoluted and confused,
:it becomes useless and impossible to maintain. We can do better.
I agree that the meeting was messy
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. It's a "users group" it's for us, the users. If
people want to join fine,
