[dundee] TayLug - light blue touchpaper and don't retire...

[Rick Moynihan]

I don't see this as being about creating a division between student
and non-student members...  Both groups form one community, and that
is how we're strongest.

The real issue is that there is no formalised non-student leadership,
this is a big barrier.

For example, if a non-student member wanted to apply for council
funding to pay for some international speakers to come to Dundee, and
do so on behalf of TayLUG they'd struggle; as right now they'd have no
legitimate claim to speak on behalf of the group.  Even if the entire
group was behind them other organisations will be wary of giving money
to coalition of people on a mailing list.  If TayLUG has a collective
ambition, then it needs to formalise, and appoint some people in
official roles.

This can obviously only happen if people in the non-student membership
care enough to commit to it.

R.

On 30 November 2010 22:54, Andrew Clayton <andrew at digital-domain.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 22:36:40 +0000, James Le Cuirot wrote:
>
>> It's worth stressing that point. Someone mentioned that social
>> interactions between students and greybeards may be awkward but I
>> myself was a student not too many moons ago. I can't speak for the
>> others but I certainly have no issues socialising with them. When I
>> was at a student at Durham, I was actually the odd-one-out at our LUG
>> as all the others weren't students. It wasn't a big group and to be
>> honest, it was just an opportunity to talk about Linux and play Quake
>> 3 whilst having a pint but still, I got on fine with them.
>
> With the old TayLUG it was a good mixture of student and non-student.
> In fact I never thought about it in those terms until this thread came
> up...
>
> Andrew
>
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