[volunteers] On hamburgers

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Paul Reiber (reiber at gmail.com):

> But then again, no-one approached me to get/verify SVLUG's support of
> Duncan for picnic coordinator, either.  So, Rick, if one of your
> points is, "Hrm, it appears no bay area Linux groups got to vote"...
> well, I'll concur that SVLUG hasn't been asked - neither about the
> coordinator role nor the treasurer role.

Yep.  Not our picnic any more.

> My tendency is to believe that Sbay's motivation here is pretty
> transparent - they want to help the picnic to succeed year after year.

And it's great that they want to have a successful Sbay summer picnic.
I wish them the best of luck at that, especially since they wish to
throw it to benefit Linux users, which _is_ nice of them.  My main point
is that it's no longer the Bay Area Linux groups' picnic.  That being
the case, I see no reason to provide volunteer labour to help Sbay staff
its picnic:  Since they decided to take it over without consulting the
rest of us, I figure they also volunteered to do the work themselves.

> It seems they've stepped on a few toes in attempting to do that....

Yours, for example, and SVLUG's, and every single other Linux group in
the Bay Area, whose picnic this used to be.  They sprung this on everyone
against reminders that, no, guys, it really _is_ a fundamental change,
and it doesn't matter how often you claim otherwise.  And is your
reaction now "Oh well, let's ignore all that, because they obviously
meant well"?  

Personally, my reaction is "OK, please do enjoy your picnic, and thank
you for running it.  And I'll be checking with our peer Linux groups
about also putting together _our_ picnic again, for future years."

I'll remind you that SVLUG's participation last year, which included
many staffers and a large amount of publicity, was explicitly made
conditional on the picnic continuing to be a production _jointly_ among
all the participating Linux groups, with none of them to have any
special authority over the others.  Sbay violated that agreement in the 
way it ran things in 2006.  It's doing things the same way now.