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Re: LUCI: 7/23/2002 meeting *cancelled*
In light of this discussion...I will volunteer my services in advance. I have
been playing around with some of the floppy distros and found a really
excellent firewall/router distro that fits on a floppy and runs on a 386 >= 8
Meg of ram and would like to do a presentation on it. If someone else has a
presentation and Steve can't make it, I would most certainly proctor the
meeting. If a) Steve can't make it and b) No one has a presentaton, then I
will be happy to proctor and create a discussion topic for the meeting.
This User group has really been a rich source of information for me and I would
hate to see the group fade due to lack of attendance.
Thanks,
Aaron Cronkright
aaron@cronkright.com
Quoting Joe Newbie <eibwen_xunil@yahoo.com>:
> I don't intend this message to be flame-bait. I have
> some questions, a little confusion, and an opinion on
> an issue; this is not a personal attack. Only reason
> I'm posting it to the group and not addressing Steve
> off-list is that I feel this worthy of a small bit of
> discussion. No harm intended, please. (Does it sound
> like I know what it feels like to be a victim???)
>
> <ISSUE>
> This has been like a splinter that I just can't get
> out, and every time I think about it, it nags at me,
> bothering me, digging away, getting inflamed more and
> more. Time to get the old sewing needle out, sterilize
> it, and get this thing out (off my chest...).
>
> Why would the meeting need be cancelled? Are there no
> others that would be willing to take up the reins?
> Rather than asking for volunteers, Steve, as you've
> done in the past, why did you eliminate the
> possibility of having a meeting at all last month with
> your announcement? I am sure if you would've
> approached this differently and asked if anyone would
> volunteer a subject and run the meeting (you know
> Erich will make sure the facilities are in order).
> Even Erich himself could've done a whole meeting on
> some aspect of his stuff there at the Museum. This
> past month, there have been some IPCHAINS and WIRELESS
> networking issues that have been discussed on the mail
> list, playing with Remote Admin stuff, Security stuff,
> distro stuff, whatever - one of those folks could've
> donated a little time to discuss what they did to
> resolve their issue. I don't know... It seems to me
> that you didn't consider something other than calling
> the entire meeting off. I could be wrong. I didn't see
> anything on the mailing list other than your
> annoncement calling the whole thing off. But, you
> didn't even ask... I do know I felt a bit miffed that
> you simply called the meeting off without a discussion
> - as if there wouldn't be other options.
>
> I understand that it is summertime and as a general
> rule, there is a substantial drop in attendance and
> such during this time of year. I also understand that
> there would probably be NO user group without Steve
> and his 'almost' regular leadership. Furthermore, I
> realize, LUCI is a very loose interpretation of what
> is a REAL User Group - we have no formal structure, no
> formal charter, no elections, nothing official. But,
> if it sounds, acts and feels like a duck... Isn't the
> whole premise of a 'User Group' being one that is "by
> the User, for the User, and of the User?"
>
> Maybe I've had too much coffee recently and am lost
> somewhere out in left field running around aimlessly,
> getting too much sun...
>
> OK.... End of opinion...
> </ISSUE>
>
> --Joe
>
>
> --- Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org> wrote:
> > Due to a scheduling problem, we will not be having a
> > meeting next
> > Tuesday.
> >
> > Sorry for any inconvenience. I'll see you all next
> > month.
> >
> > Steve
> > --
> > steve@silug.org | Linux Users of Central
> > Illinois
> > (618)398-7360 | See web site for meeting
> > details.
> > Steven Pritchard | http://www.luci.org/
>
>
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