[Scottish] Forming New LUG

[William Anderson]

Tony Dyer wrote:

> I have become increasingly disaffected by the lack of progress and 
> decisions the charting SLUG's future. As such I intend to form a 
> distinct UG, in the Greater Glasgow Area, devoted to a broad range of 
> Open Source as well as Linux issues and taking in user as well as 
> technical views. If anyone is interested in joining me please contact me 
> at UG at dyer.demon.co.uk. I wish those who continue with SLUG every 
> success in the future. My Heart and Head are no longer with my co-creation.

This kind of response is disappointing to say the least.  A lack of 
progress and decisions regarding the LUG in the middle of December is 
hardly something to get worked up about - this is a time when most people 
are winding down and are possibly away from keyboards.

Some good comments have been made over the last couple of weeks, and while 
formalised progress hasn't been decided upon, I think it's only fair to 
mull over further comments and thoughts over the holiday period.  I notice 
that you didn't participate in the discussion which you yourself initiated 
on the 9th - any reason for that?  You could have guided that thread to 
engage and enliven LUG members to be more proactive, but you didn't - why? 
  You changed your mind from offering to turn up at meetings and do some 
content for the website at around half past eight on Monday night to 
forming another Glasgow LUG at about half past ten.  If you attribute your 
change of heart to some indigestion after your dinner, I can somewhat 
understand, but otherwise it just smacks of impatience and offhanded 
irritation.

If you feel that your only way forward is to abandon the existing LUG and 
attempt to form a new one, then good luck to you, but it seems an extremely 
rash and ill-mannered decision to make.  If you want to take charge of 
something and take it forward, why not do so with the existing LUG instead 
of creating a new LUG, fragmenting the community?

I suggested earlier in the month that the community that is ScotLUG become 
GLUG, retaining the current membership, times, goals, etc, and the ScotLUG 
"brand" be used as an umbrella organisation to help bring together the LUG 
communities in Scotland.  You are suggesting further fragmenting the 
Scottish LUG community - can we have more details reasons why you feel this 
is necessary?

Please don't take any of these comments as an attack - I genuinely would 
like to hear your answers to my questions, and any other comments you wish 
to make to make your position and thinking clearer.  if you still feel your 
only course of action is to fragment the community, I again wish you luck 
and also a guid new year.

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