[svlug] The Purpose of the ...

[Heather Stern]

The purpose of the SVLUG is ... to have an occasional meeting and
installfest and share good time with other people who for the most part
happen to enjoy pizza.

I had posted an absoultely generic flyer about an upcoming Linux and
Open Source event going on.  The kind of people I just described above,
which surely includes a few hundred more on this mailing list than the
perhaps-a-hundred who actually show up on first Wednesdays, would have an
interest in that.

Open Source projects, including picnics and beer hikes, are not owned
so much as made to happen.

I was already concerned about the nature of a discussion on Volunteers
because it praised my motives well and otherwise claimed things untrue.
The miscellaneous flyer wasn't so miscellaneous when the response to it
was a direct slam on the note above, in my opinion a slam on the overall
nature of how projects of this community work.  Also, it was posted on
the mailing list I read far less often.

It is not the purpose of the SVLUG nor the picnic to grind axes.  Save
the whetstone for more useful tools, and the grindstone for noses. 

>     You mean the portion that carries over to following picnix....
::It _isn't_ going into Sbay's general funds?  We both know the answer.

      You can accept my word of honour, but I know what it's worth and
      you don't.  I know that the answer is being read by the feds, for
      what it's worth, and to my great pleasure nobody's been dragged
      off in chains yet.  Nobody else here gives a rat's ass.
      
      Stop turning SVLUG's public places into court cases. It makes 
      you look loud and drunken, and I believe much better than that
      of you, on the average.

>     It's everyone's picnic, Rick.
::This appears to be a deliberate falsehood.  It previously was; it isn't
::any more.

  Picnic \Pic"nic\, n. [Cf. F. piquenique. See {Pick}, v., and cf.
     {Knickknack}.]
     Formerly, an entertainment at which each person contributed
     some dish to a common table; now, an excursion or pleasure
     party in which the members partake of a collation or repast
     (usually in the open air, and from food carried by
     themselves).
     [1913 Webster]

Seems to meet the definition.

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