[nflug] Meetings - A Brief History of NFLUG and its Future

[tyler.poland at gmail.com]

I'm not sure that any group of users should be excluded by declaring it to  
be an "Enterprise" level group. While that could be the focus I certainly  
wouldn't want to discourage new members or new users from coming out and  
learning.

Tyler


On Nov 25, 2008 9:13am, "Carver, Blake" <Blake.Carver at nypa.gov> wrote:
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> I agree with Mark, though I'm not sure what advantage
> there would be to having an enterprise level, I do like the idea of just  
one
> group, and one list, WNYLUG or whatever it's called.
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> -Blake
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> From: nflug-bounces at nflug.org
> [mailto:nflug-bounces at nflug.org] On Behalf Of Mark Musone
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> Subject: Re: [nflug] Meetings - A Brief History of
> NFLUG and its Future
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> I
> personally like the name WNYLUG. I think it best describes the  
geographical
> membership better than BPLUG or NFLUG. Upon speaking to Brian, he also  
like the
> idea of having a more “Enterprise” level usergroup, and is willing to  
lead that
> one also (it might simply be a sub-group of WNYLUG). So, if it was up to  
me, I
> would merge NFLUG and BPLUG into WNYLUG and adopt the WNYLUG charter and  
mission
> statement for the time being. The next WNYLUG meeting is December
> 10th. At that time, there will be voting for the leadership and
> acceptance of the mission statement and charter (note, even though Brian  
is
> founding this and taking on the initial leadership, actual voting for all
> officers will be done). Anybody is welcome to come and not only vote, but  
put
> themselves up for election.
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> Once
> this is done, the next item that needs to be cleaned up is the mailing  
lists. I
> would suggest that the only mailing list that remains be WNYLUG. People  
can
> either manually sign up for wnylug, and at date certain, the nflug  
mailing list
> be shut down. I strongly discourage having multiple Linux mailing lists be
> active at one time, It only encourages division of our local
> community.
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