Well, this sheds an entirely new light on the matter. I wasn't aware that non-students could participate in LUG activities - thanks much for correcting me. If there's one thing I hate, it's duplication of effort, so I think I'll just spread the word about MTU LUG. I have some new ideas/questions, but they might be appropriate for a different thread - more coming soon. Neal On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 19:04:44 -0400, Brian <bamcpher@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I'd love to see attendance at our meetings of those that may not be > students. I know that in the official sense you can't become "Members" > per se, but I don't see why you couldn't attend our meetings. The only > thing is people who are not students wouldn't get any of the benefits > that being a member would give, such as getting some funding from USG > to attend a con. > > I'd like to see an external LUG start up. I see no reason for there not > to be, but would definitely encourage our group and the external group > to help each other out as needed. Maybe even try to hold a common > meeting time/place if possible. > > I definitely wouldn't mind having some of the people that aren't > students and or faculty come to our meetings so we could get a good > idea of services or other things we might be interested in serving on > our hardware so the local community can benefit more, and possibly > some more ideas of other events and such that they might be interested > in helping with or even funding. > > I would also encourage those interested to use our IRC server and > perhaps even start their own channel if you don't have your own > hardware. > > Brian McPherson > MTU LUG President > > Neal Ylitalo wrote: > > Well, if that's a viable alternative, I'm all for it - but I would > > assume that since MTU LUG is a Student Organization, you'd have to go > > through the Board Of Control. The Student Organization section of the > > BOC Policy Manual says that "student organizations are formed by > > groups of students", and I'm guessing that this is not really > > negotiable. > > > > You say that there are plenty of ways to go about this - can you give > > some more details? > > > > Neal > > > > > > On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:43:25 -0400 (EDT), wglulham@xxxxxxx wrote: > > > > > >>> Are there any reasons why I should *not* start a new LUG? > >>> > >> I'm actually going to contribute something useful for once. > >> > >> Why do such a thing? Why not just adapt the MTU LUG charter to > >> include those not students? Why make more then one group for the > >> same thing? > >> > >> Seems like an excess of work when most of the logistics are already > >> taken care of by MTU, if you just invite non-student people to come > >> too. And there's plenty of ways to go about this. > >> > >> ~Will > >> > > > > > > -- You don't have to pay a cent for your computer software. If you want to try a completely free alternative to Windows, look into Ubuntu GNU/Linux. (Google will tell you all you need to know.) Use GPG security in your email: www.gnupg.org Free software, free society: www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Eliminate DRM: www.defectivebydesign.org
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