[Glastonbury] an Idea ends I guess

[Mike Keogh]

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Hi,

Thanks for your responses to the paper.  It was to test the water 
really.  For this sort of project there has to be a great deal of 
enthusiasm and constructive energy - vision really, not to put too fine a 
point on it.  And also a degree of harmony, open agendas etc.  For my part 
I really belive in the ideas in the paper, have done research on it, spoken 
and schmoozed to a few people.  But this would be a project in which there 
needed to e a team, and one in which their creative emergencies were 
directed to wards creating something.  Forgive me, I can't see that 
emerging at the moment.  I may not know much about the details of Linux, 
but the point is, I don't NEED to, to be able to appreciate it, and to be 
able to build something with it.  I have just spent some time in the 
states, the atmosphere there is really enmeshing, for them the glass really 
is half full

Glastonbury for so long, and I have been here for some time, is full of 
people who love to criticise, talk things down, moan, - the glass is not 
just half empty, its leaking!!!!! - and there is a kind of thrill they get 
from talking in this way.  Perhaps on the more positive, it may be just 
talk about aspirations - but they never seem to realise these!   There is 
nothing wrong in dreaming, but what you have to do is make that dream, that 
vision, a reality, and that takes effort and commitment.  If you want the 
Glastonbury Lugog to remain a monthly talking shop, with people simply 
using it to raise slightly nerdy comments about different configurations of 
systems, and what is a better version of a piece of software, or how you 
pronounce the word Linux, (p-lease!) so be it.  All that stuff is useful 
(apart from the drivel about pronunciation) ...but somehow Linux should be 
more than that, and I kind of feel that we owe it both to the worldwide 
Linux community and to the town to create something.  Well, at least I 
tested the waters before I put too much energy into it.  I have a lot to 
give.  Its a shame... I really think it could have worked.

Mike

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