Re: [plug] [rant?] Business-Related Topics (was: What Do You Wanna Learn From A PLUG Meet?)

2008-06-01 Thread Ariz Jacinto
hehehe. i gotcha. i think PLUG should first post or update its vision/mission statement and make it clear(attn: Gabriel). before, what's needed is to promote FOSS and then recently, lobby FOSS in gov't/public education but other NGOs are already doing the latter and they're doing it well. i rememb

Re: [plug] [rant?] Business-Related Topics (was: What Do You Wanna Learn From A PLUG Meet?)

2008-06-01 Thread Drexx Laggui [personal]
02Jun2008 (UTC +8) On 6/1/08, Christian Masancay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Well > it's not really about doing business, but more of having a business > approach/perspective for PLUG. I know It's not really the culture of > PLUG but every other established non-profit organization out ther

Re: [plug] [rant?] Business-Related Topics (was: What Do You Wanna Learn From A PLUG Meet?)

2008-06-01 Thread Christian Masancay
Good evening, Hi Ariz, how are you? You're already good at this as a treasurer (I mean managing money? hehe, nice friendster pics) Anyway, if remember it correctly, it was a bad schedule (near end of school year) Well it's not really about doing business, but more of having a business approach/per

[plug] [rant?] Business-Related Topics (was: What Do You Wanna Learn From A PLUG Meet?)

2008-06-01 Thread Ariz Jacinto
i don't know about that. remember when we tried this before and the attendance was less than stellar (less than 20 compared to the usual 200++). but maybe things are different now than before? maybe doing business is not really in our culture to start with? if i'm going to use the analogy (sari-sa