[aclug-L] Re: ACLUG

["James O. Harms" <joharms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Let me re-phrase part of my previous post.

"James O. Harms" wrote:
> 
> Dale W Hodge wrote:
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: discussion-bounce@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:discussion-bounce@xxxxxxxxx]On
> > > Behalf Of Tom Hull
> 
> >
> > > > I would favor 1 topic meeting and 1 "social" meeting.
> > >
> > > I don't know what you mean by a "social" meeting. There could be
> > > different types of meetings/events, especially if one need not get
> > > involved in all of them.
> >
> > By social meeting, I mean something like our "pizza parties".  Where a 
> > group of
> > us get together and talk over whatever.
> 
> Don't get me wrong.  There's nothing wrong with a Pizza Party.  But I tend to
> think of these as social events, not Linux problem-solving events.  I would
> rather  alternate topic meetings and Brainstorm Sessions, bull-sessions -
> whatever you want to call them.  A lot of important things can be talked about
> in a bull-session.
> How to fix things that are broken, location of files you need to edit and
> can't find, opinions of the latest distro, new user questions and support.
> These will sometimes be pretty esoteric, and sometimes pretty basic.  They can
> be a real free-for-all and nobody gets hurt.
> 
> > > Maybe you are "a
> > > fairly social group," and I'm just not social enough to
> > > recognize that, but maybe I'm not the only one with that
> > > problem.
> >
> > I think the longer the core group has stayed together the more social we've
> > become. It's that way in any group.
> >
> > >I'm afraid that the "committee" has always felt
> > > like a clique to me.
> >
> > Ouch!  I hope we're not!
> 
I go with Tom on this one.  I have been part of ACLUG since it was formed (day
1), but no one would consider me part of "The Group".

But I have to go with Dale on this one as well, since I am sure this was not
intended.
 
 --joh
 
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