[volunteers] Feb 2008 meeting

[Heather Stern]

It is not appropriate for any one volunteer to cancel on a speaker who has
accepted unless the meeting-host site hs cancelled on us.  It's
unprofessional

To my knowledge, neither Symantec nor its V-cafe have bailed on SVLUG.

It also makes zero sense to demand a vote-of-confidence and then make sure
that the people who *only* come to physical meetings are prevented from
voting.  Nevermind whether it's powerless and lacks even the teeth to
pretend to it if nobody is willing to stick to a definition of what the
title means or step up to the plate and replace him at it.  I realize 
some countries are into that sort of thing, changing as the winds go to
preserve whatever the current "power base" is, deliberately disenfranchising
their unfavorite voters, and making moves to please the press.

There's no 'power base' here worth fighting for and the fighting itself is
getting old.

There's dozens++ of flavors of Linux but everyone can agree that it's Linux
without specialty meetings.  None of this is about Linux anyway.  But we can
borrow from that small bit of sanity - if the kernel boots, it's Linux.  If
the meetings happen (with or without angst) then SVLUG is a meeting group.

If the speaker speaks on a Linux topic, I'd rather hear him than any of us
volunteers at all, that being what imo the SVLUG general meetings are
actually for.  Some bit of tradition normally calls for the speakers to be
introduced by someone, but some speakers are just as happy to intriduce
themselves.  

p.s. Yes I know, it's top posting.  Live with it;  I'm at work, but this
     seemed to be worth an immediate reply.

p.p.s this is my opinion and everyone else is welcome to their own.  I just
      think bloodletting isn't a win if what you want is peace instead of 
      pieces.

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On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 12:20:08PM -0800, Darlene Wallach wrote:
> Aniruddha Mulay wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Yesterday, Dan Kegel (project: Zumastor also search for C10K problem) got
> > back to me saying that he won't be able to present at the Feb 2008 meeting.
> > 
> > I have already written to few other potential speakers but as of now, we do
> > *not* have a confirmed speaker for the Feb 2008 meeting.
> > --
> > 
> > After a lull of few weeks, the svlug lists are once again active - mostly
> > for the *non-technical* issues.
> > 
> > May be we should use the Feb 2008 slot to hash out all the political issues.
> > Regards,
> > 
> > (Ani)ruddha Mulay
> > 
> > 
> 
> I think it is in the best interest of SVLUG to *not*
> invite a speaker until we get the current administration
> issue resolved.
> 
> I concur with Marc Merlin - I call for a vote of no
> confidence in the current Paul Reiber administration. I
> call on Paul Reiber to step down in the best interest of
> SVLUG.
> 
> It does not appear that Paul Reiber is listening to anyone
> but himself.
> 
> Darlene Wallach
> 
> 
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