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| From: | Christoph Lameter <christoph(at)lameter(dot)com> |
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| To: | spi-general(at)lists(dot)spi-inc(dot)org |
| Subject: | LUGs & SPI |
| Date: | 1999-04-04 21:39:58 |
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I wonder if SPI would be willing to take LUGs as projects. I have two LUGs
in my area that might be interested in getting tax-deductable donations
and have some official status.
How about websites and email lists for LUGs?
| From: | John Goerzen <jgoerzen(at)complete(dot)org> |
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| To: | Christoph Lameter <christoph(at)lameter(dot)com> |
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| Subject: | Re: LUGs & SPI |
| Date: | 1999-04-06 04:39:42 |
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Christoph Lameter <christoph(at)lameter(dot)com> writes:
> I wonder if SPI would be willing to take LUGs as projects. I have two LUGs
> in my area that might be interested in getting tax-deductable donations
> and have some official status.
>
> How about websites and email lists for LUGs?
At first, I was thinking, "hey wow, great idea." However, on second
thought, it gets stickier. What if LUGs are promoting things that SPI
disagrees with? For instance, maybe they are doing a Linux Install
and advocating the use of non-free software or distributions with a
lot of non-free software (eg, Caldera, and to a lesser extent,
RedHat). What do we do then? If SPI is sponsoring the LUG, cutting
off support is a great way to make enemies and look like bad guys
fast. OTOH, we can't really keep supporting a LUG that is advocating
positions we disagree with.
| From: | Christoph Lameter <christoph(at)lameter(dot)com> |
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| To: | John Goerzen <jgoerzen(at)complete(dot)org> |
| Cc: | spi-general(at)lists(dot)spi-inc(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: LUGs & SPI |
| Date: | 1999-04-06 04:43:18 |
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Well. Same issues with Debian and non-free. We need to have a commitment
to the goals of SPI but they also need some freedom. The LUGs would be a
grassroots organization that has the potential of motivating huge amounts
of people to get familiar with free software, principle and goals.
On 5 Apr 1999, John Goerzen wrote:
> Christoph Lameter <christoph(at)lameter(dot)com> writes:
>
> > I wonder if SPI would be willing to take LUGs as projects. I have two LUGs
> > in my area that might be interested in getting tax-deductable donations
> > and have some official status.
> >
> > How about websites and email lists for LUGs?
>
> At first, I was thinking, "hey wow, great idea." However, on second
> thought, it gets stickier. What if LUGs are promoting things that SPI
> disagrees with? For instance, maybe they are doing a Linux Install
> and advocating the use of non-free software or distributions with a
> lot of non-free software (eg, Caldera, and to a lesser extent,
> RedHat). What do we do then? If SPI is sponsoring the LUG, cutting
> off support is a great way to make enemies and look like bad guys
> fast. OTOH, we can't really keep supporting a LUG that is advocating
> positions we disagree with.
>
>