[SGVLUG] lula

[matti]

Hi!

imho, recalling that running a LUG is a labor of love,
Clay did a very good job in keeping lula going
and promoting linux...

granted i would probably have done a few things
differently, but then again i didn't volunteer
my time to run lula... (helping with one lug sgvlug
is enough for me ;) - matti




> >> Clay led the group for many years.  I don't see how he can be
> faulted
> >> for abdicating when higher priorities demanded his time.


> No. LULA in general had no formal structure. Clay was "elected" at
> one
> point, but AFAIK noone ran against him. Running a user group is a
> royal
> PITA, and I think we were all used to Clay doing it all for us for so
> long. On top of that the group had kind of been bouncing around from
> one
> meeting place to another, and losing a lot of people in the process.
> > As for using the word abdicating here.... I suppose that is one way
> to
> > look at it.
> He quit. You can question his motives for doing so, but frankly I
> suspect even Clay would agree that he'd been carrying the burden
> longer
> than he should have. He may not have always done the best thing for
> the
> group, but I'm sure if someone who was really willing to volunteer
> the
> necessary time and energy had stepped up with alternative ideas, it
> wouldn't have been a problem.
> 
> --Chris
> 



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