NFLUG Business: [Fwd: Please Update Your USA --> New York LUG List]

[Dennis J. Eberl]

Whoever posted us as an Ontario site please contact me immediately.

Canadians might and probably will -- and, IMHO, ought to -- resent it.

I contacted nearly all of the Ontario LUGs separately and made them aware
of our existence and desire for affiliation and open membership policy for anyone
within driving distance of Buffalo who lives in Ontario to join us.

I recently checked a map of Canada and removed all Ontario LUGs not
on or within a circle centered on Buffalo with a radius reaching Toronto.
That leaves only the Toronto group, the St. Catherine's LUGNUTs (whose
address isn't working), and H[amilton]LUG, with which I am attempting
to open a dialog. It may also leave the Scarborough group, which I have
removed but not deleted, if it is a suburb of Toronto. I couldn't find it on my
map.

This can be a sensitive issue for Canadians. By presuming to put our LUG under
the Ontario listing we look like a bunch of ignorant invading Yanks. This is not the

way to forge bonds of friendship and a cross boarder sense of Linux community.

Canada is not a "me too" extension of the United States. Anyone who has lived and
worked there for any length of time -- as I have -- knows that. It has a history and

unique culture of its own, a quite remarkable culture if you get far enough away
from the border and spend some tuning in. Therefore, I am  requesting immediate
removal from the Ontario list. I am doing this unilaterally. If you don't like it,
I am sure you will let me know.

I would hope in the future such actions would be proposed to the group before
being acted on.

Respectfully,

Dennis Eberl


"Michael J. Jordan" wrote:

> On Sun, 02 Apr 2000, Dennis J. Eberl wrote:
> > Please be advised that the original BLUG and my BLUG listed as follows
> >
> >                           Buffalo Linux User's Group
> >                           Location: Buffalo, New York
> >                           Web Site: http://www.blug.wnyweb.com/
> >                           Contact: none
> >                           Email: none
> >
> >                           Buffalo Linux User's Group (BLUG)
> >                           Location: Buffalo, New York
> >                           Web Site: http://www2.pcom.net/dje/
> >                           Contact: Dennis Eberl
> >                           Email: dje at adelphia.net
> >
> > no longer exist. You can verify that fact by contacting James Simmons, who
> > took over the first group from Mark Musone in 1997, at
> > jsimmons at acsu.buffalo.edu.
> > My group, the second, has merged with Niagara Frontier Linux Users Group
> > (NFLUG). We still use my site http://www2.pcom.net/dje/ as a test site, but you
> > will find NFLUG pages there.
> >
> > After deleting the two sites above, please add the following.
> >
> >                           Niagara Frontier Linux User's Group (NFLUG)
> >                           Location: Buffalo, New York
> >                           Web Site: http://www.nflug.org
> >                           Contact: Dennis Eberl
> >                           Email: dje at adelphia.net
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Dennis Eberl
>
> Greetings Dennis;
>
> Thanks for getting this information to us. I have made the appropriate changes.
>  I just wanted to ask you one question.  Two weeks ago I took on the job of
> handling the Linux User Groups updates. I received a petition then for the
> NFLUG.  This group also figures under groups for Ontario, Canada.  Could you
> check out the page http://www.linux.org/users/groups/canada/ontario.html
> and tell me if in fact this listing should appear in Ontario's LUG list as well?
>
> Thanks very much
>
> Mike Jordan
> Linux Online!
>
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