[svlug] SVLUG - hostile takeover

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Brian J. Tarricone (bjt23 at cornell.edu):

> If you have a problem with someone, give them a call and talk it out over 
> coffee.

Brian, my two-line public, strictly factual mention of the problem ("One
notes complete absence of any participating Bay Area Linux group, unlike
in all prior years.  This is a major change."), which Heather then
immediately blew up into a long emotionally overwrought thread including
her gratuitous import from a _different_ mailing list of the long-ago
topic of Ian's past bad-faith domain management, followed well over a
year of attempts at private, in-person and e-mail discussion.

Now, to address Joe's point that picnics shouldn't need administration:
Quite so.  Part of the reason the picnic was always run as a _collective_ 
effort among Bay Area Linux groups was to ensure that some lunatic
didn't start, e.g., passing rules about throwing people out of the
picnic, or off the picnic mailing list, based on some star-chamber
backstab procedure not disclosed to the membership.  (The other reason
was to encourage broad participation.)

Pretty much the first thing Sbay did, following their unilaterally
grabbing full control of the picnic, was provide mechanisms for both of
those things -- and it will come as no surprise to SVLUG members that
Sbay reserves the right to unilaterally depose and replace picnic
coordinators, who, in wording SVLUG members will again find familiar, 
Sbay considers to be "Sbay SIG leaders", without checking with anyone
else.

So, basically, as I said in my one and only basic point, Sbay have made
it be their picnic, and no longer ours.  Which is fine, really, as long
as people are aware of that fact, and aren't buying the insultingly
dishonest pitch that "Nothing's changed."

> Nothing is going to be solved here...

On the contrary:  People have been informed of what was done behind
their backs.