[Scottish] Your caring, sharing LUG

[Phil Deane]

On Monday 29 Dec 2003 16:36, Willie wrote:
> The wikipedia folks need some help http://www.wikimedia.org/letter.html.
> A quick confab on IRC suggested we could make a difference by taking up a
> collection at the next meeting and making a single  PayPal (or whatever)
> transaction.  A goal of raising £50 was mentioned.  We also touched on a
> regular donation programme to support worthy Open Source projects.
> Real big time approx £1 per person per month from those who can afford it
> and wish to donate. Even students can afford that, surely?
>
> Thoughts, flames?

Good Idea. I'm up for that.
>
> Latest news is that wikipedia have reached their target, however there are
> plenty of other worthy projects.
>
> Almost entirely unrelated, I was surfing (cant mind just what linked to it)
> and came across www.blug.org.
> Is this a model we should attempt to emulate? They also claim to be
> "technically unstructured"

I am a member of Blug (My home town before moving to Scotland) and don't like 
the setup they have, it allocates people titles and constitutions, and gets 
so boring and bogged down, that it takes weeks to agree anything, because 
they couldn't vote because they hadn't chosen a committee, and then when they 
did they couldn't vote because they didn't have a constitution which told 
them how to handle votes in the first place. When they did people disagreed 
with the constitution, currently going through a schism like SLUG is.

What ever happened to geeks being geeks, and not politicians, computers, 
pimples and dungeons and dragons was all we needed when I have a commodore 
64!

Just my 2p
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Phil Deane
http://www.MiracleExpress.force9.co.uk