[svlug] i AM paranoid and so SHOULD you, Treasurer edition.

[bruce coston]

I just had a chat with Ross B. He finished closing out PIE last year. Remember PIE, the Pre-Macintosh Apple user group umbrella organization? It's not on anyone's radar anymore ( especially since SVLUG turned down the offer to continue it as a potentially renamed charity ). Point being, SVLUG turned down the offer to take over as the new primary SIG of this real incorporated charity. [ SVLUG used to be a SIG] This would have given SVLUG all the benefits of status as a real incorporated charity at spectacularly reduced initial cost and no increase in running costs versus filing for incorporation ourselves. This year Paul tells us that we need exactly what got spectacularly more expensive to do. I suspect he will claim lack of memory if asked. 

Once upon a time I read a book called "The gentle verbal art of Self-Defense"tm. The book warns against "The Switcher" as one type of advanced liar. The "Switcher" changes positions and the subject so often it gets hard to tell their underLYING motive. ( In fact, the book warns amateurs not to attempt a confrontation against such a practiced and skillful liar and does not even try to guide one on how to gain enough skill to do so.) Changing the subject, as in taking weeks to fess up and answer my question about where the actually valuable server unavailable for volunteers to work on went. I'm suspicious when it's announced that it's sitting at the house of the sbay.org president ( Or was she veep at the time, I'm not a sbay.org watcher.) Oops, the big confession needed revision. Supposedly, its at Ed's now. But the story changes too often. 

Individuals associated with sbay.org keep on bringing it up after its thoroughly been debunked and now archived on linuxmafia.com: that we need to incorporate. Odd that someone with an sbay.org association went negative and nasty in a big way first. LUG Presidencies need Democracy and Delegation; not damage, denigration and denial ( we'd have to be in delusional denial to miss how this turns up after turning down the PIE offer.) Sbay.org offers SVLUG nothing but the incorporation "benefits". So, someone who wants SVLUG as part of Sbay.org would start by suckering SVLUG into incorporation and waiting. Waiting until SVLUG gets tired of maintaining all the dumb crap we don't need for benefits so small they round down to zero. Once SVLUG politics heat up again, lucky SVLUG, sbay.org seems willing to shoulder those needless burdens of incorporation "for" SVLUG. And then the rules change after its much more difficult for SVLUG to assert its independent will. Guarantees that some
 sbay.org insider won't usurp our Presidency turn out worthless. Just like the last time when I and others witnessed an sbay.org insider threatening our presidency after the individual was forbidden to do so by sbay.org. SVLUG got a guaranteed return to the old governance of linuxpicnic.org in exchange for help one year. Voting on a new set of linuxpicnic bylaws just finished without any hint of that promise. And an annotation implying dire consequences unless we let sbay.org exert undue influence of linuxpicnic governance in the form of guaranteed board seats. These claims got debunked years ago too. Didn't Goebbles say that a bold lie repeated often enough becomes the truth in the minds of listeners. 

Very telling that those advocating incorporation do not volunteer to cover the extra work for 9 years, including the necessary P.O. box and other fees. Sbay.org has a fact about SVLUG as a SIG of sbay.org sitting on their website in splendid isolation. I've seen it on their site after an internet search, a fact, that represents a real danger to SVLUG's continued existence as an independent entity unless given appropriate and missing context. Lying by slanting and selection still = lying. 

People complain about the dirt in public politics but lack of disclosure makes private politics much dirtier. This all seems shockingly familiar, I wonder if it got lost when certain individuals decided our list discussion needed "shaping" before the "election" , making sure the truth stayed hidden from our "electorate" - or with this much obvious prevarication I really should not believe any reports about what the vote count was? -Kilgore Starslayer Excelsior  el Presidente de East Bay Linux User Group ( excelsior means shredded newspaper - Bruce )

       
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