[plug] [IMPORTANT] AGM Announcement

[Harry McNally]

On Thu, 06 Feb 2003 12:28:32 +0800 Jacqueline McNally <jacqueline at decisions-and-designs.com.au> wrote:

> I would like to nominate Tony BT for President.

I'd like to second Tony for reasons which differ from Jacqueline's tho'
she did discuss them with me (hard to avoid when you share the same office :-)

After talking to Matt about his President's activities at PLUG I think the
position is one of guiding the User Group so it benefits local users and the
wider community; and is also fun.

With the plethora of activity nationally, post-LCA, there is much
administrative discussion about committees and sub-committees and AFAICT very
little about the real reasons for each of the entities.

The fun and casual nature of PLUG is what makes PLUG special (to me anyway)
and for that reason it differs from SLPWA which is a more formal and
business oriented face(s) to promote Linux into that sphere.

Linux Australia will be able to offer communication between many different
entities around the country and I suspect as a communicator with national
government and corporate entities.  

Computer Angels encourages participation in the Linux community as a
means of education and technical access which _needs_ to be available to
everyone.

These entities all exist with Linux and OSS as it's core and people with
these technical (and social) interests tend to gravitate to the organisations
that they are comfortable with (or more than one :-) 

I feel that each of these organisations needs a champion whose role is to
consider the best interests of that organisation (and it's philosophy)
and I think Tony has demonstrated his ability to see what is best for PLUG
and guide it's activities.

I trust too that people will step up and offer to contribute around Tony
because I will be the first person to tell him _not_ to drop into a support
role if others commit and then fade away (hmmm probably not the first).  

Tony has completed a large part of a monumental effort and responsibility
with LCA and I'd encourage PLUG to invite Tony to contribute to PLUGs
development.

My wish is that people will join ($) PLUG (not just the mailing list) and
participate. PLUG is fun for geeks. Woo Hoo :-)

cu
Harry

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