[dundee] Constitution

[Mark Harrigan]

On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 03:36:28PM +0100, Andrew Clayton wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 11:37, Wm. G. Urquhart wrote:
> > On Mon, 5 May 2003, Mark Harrigan wrote:
> > 
> > > Just another small thing before I finalise this beast.
> > > 
> > > On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 08:58:26PM +0100, Mark Harrigan wrote: 
> > > > TLUG Constitution:
> > > > 
> > > >    1.  Aims and Objectives
> > > > 
> > > >          1. To provide a forum to discuss and gain experience of
> > > >             GNU/Linux and all Open Source operating systems. 
> > > > 
> > > >          2. To help and educate interested parties in the usage of
> > > >             Open Source operating systems and related software.
> > > > 
> > > >          3. To promote the use of Open Source as a viable alternative
> > > >             to proprietary techniques.
> > > 
> > > For some reason I didn't really pay attention the GNU/ bit in 1.1, now
> > > I'm not that keen on RMS decreeing that all Linux is GNU so would
> > > anyone mind if I removed that bit. If there's conflict about that
> > > we'll have to work something out. 
> > 
> > Yeah, remove the GNU and re-word with "Open Source variants of Linux" 
> > Maybe?
> 
> I'm not really fussed either way about the GNU/Linux thing. I think
> however, "Open Source operating systems" should remain worded as is.
> AFAIK there are NO open source variants of Linux.....

Sweet I'll remove the GNU/ bit then, I add the open source operating
system bit initially because I like the idea that we're open minded
enough to look at all the Open Source alternatives. Obviously Linux is
an Open Source operating system but as we are a LUG it deserves
special clarification.

I'm going have a final look over it and then post the final to the
list for everyone to see. Then we'll do some voting :).

Mark