[svlug] SVLUG - hostile takeover

[Rick Moen]

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

> Not really.  I, for one, don't know who or what to believe at this 
> point.

Well, you haven't tried really hard, then.  That's OK.  Can't please
everyone.

What you _did_ see is Drew Bertola, longtime holder of the
linuxpicnic.org domain and operator of the Linux Picnic wiki, say that
Jennifer's main assertions are simply not so.  You saw me quote
Michael Cheselka, who's on this list, at last Wednesday's SVLUG meeting
mention having gotten a quite frank admission directly from immediate
past Sbay president Ian Kluft, that they'd quite consciously kicked out
the Bay Area's Linux groups.

You can check prior years' Linux Picnic Web sites, all the way back to 
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.linux10.org/, to see for
yourself that what I said about how the picnic has traditionally been
administered is absolutely true, contrary to what Jennifer (who by her
own belated admission wasn't involved at the time) and Heather (who
knows better) allege. 

You can look through the archives of the Linux Picnic mailing list and
verify that SVLUG's very explicit precondition for participation in
staffing and publicity in 2006 was for the picnic to go back to being
_collectively_ run by all the Bay Area Linux groups, as equals.  You can
verify that that condition was then 100% violated.  You can verify that
there is _zero_ involvement by any Bay Area Linux group, this year.

Now, your objection might be "I don't know any of these people", but
that basically requires that Drew Bertola, Michael Cheselka (and Ian
Kluft, if you stipulate that Michael quoted him honestly), The Internet
Archive Wayback Machine, _and_ the Sbay-operated Linux Picnic mailing 
and Sbay-operated (current) Web site are all in collusion to fool you.

Let your conscience be your guide, I guess.  ;->