[Liverpool] Administrivia

[Sebastian Arcus]

Just wanted to say thanks to Bob for putting in all this effort. It 
benefits all of us, and some of these things (such as liaising with the 
social centre people) really needed doing - so thanks for finding the 
time to deal with this.

I also agree that everything should be kept as simple as possible - both 
from a technical and admin point of view. Over time people might come 
and go, might get involved in different commitments and become rather 
less available - even if temporarily - so I think it should be made so 
that it's easy for somebody new to get involved and help.

Also, I've been involved with other groups/clubs in the past - and in 
some cases, the admin and running of things takes a life of its own and 
becomes the main focus of the group's activity. I think admin should 
always be a "necessary evil", something to be kept as simple as 
possible. Meeting up, having talks, debating Linux (and drinking beer) 
is what it should all be about, really :-)

Sebastian


On 02/07/11 17:05, Bob Ham wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been Doing Things :-)  I attended the monthly meeting of the
> Liverpool Social Centre and I'll send a separate email about that.  I've
> also taken the liberty of stepping up as our contact with lug.org.uk,
> taking over from Andrew Williams.  Here you can see the information they
> hold about us:
>
>    http://lug.org.uk/node/82
>
>
> I've also asked them to set us up with a website of our own using their
> servers:
>
>    http://liv.lug.org.uk/
>
> (I know Simon set one up before, but that had the problem of depending
> on one particular person.  After the disappearance of the website that
> Andrew Williams set up, I thought it prudent to use a service that
> doesn't depend on the commitment of any particular member.  Of course,
> if people disagree, we can just as easily use Simon's :-)
>
> For the moment, the above link just points to a wiki.  Anyone can edit
> that.  We also have the facility to use static HTML/CSS/JS files as well
> (not PHP though unfortunately).  I'm not much of a web designer but if
> someone else wants to put together a more aesthetic page using static
> HTML, feel free :-)
>
>
> I'd like to say something about how I see my position as I wouldn't want
> anyone to get confused.  I've never been comfortable with a designated
> leader in a LUG.  As I see it, the LUG is all of the members and making
> decisions with a group consensus is simple and practical enough.
>
> I have taken on the responsibility of liaising with lug.org.uk and with
> the Liverpool Social Centre.  However, I specifically am *not* claiming
> any title of "leader" or the like.  In fact, I would very much prefer as
> much redundancy as possible and for responsibility to be shared as wide
> as possible :-)
>
>
> Bob
>
>
>
>
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