> -----Original Message-----
> From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org
> [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Tony Yarusso
> Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 1:15 PM
> To: TCLUG
> Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Looking for a LUG
> 
> 
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Brian Dolan-Goecke
> <goeko at goecke-dolan.com> wrote:
> > I have always found the meeting *VERY* useful.  And was very
> > disappointed to see the TCLug stop having regular meeting.  And had for
> > years tried to find a somewhere to have a meeting.  Now I personally am
> > not a fan of meeting at the U of M, and I don't like to meet week
> > nights.  So with those constraints I felt it was easier to start my own
> > group, and chose to no go through the TCLug.  So that is how Penguins
> > Unbound came about.
> 
> I'm a little bit confused by this.  Given that "TCLUG" isn't really a
> formal entity and just the collection of its members, why is Penguins
> Unbound billed as a separate group if it's intended to basically just
> be LUG meetings at a time that works for you?  As I understand it,
> there isn't any process to "go through the TCLug" to organize things
> for - someone just decides to do something and runs with it.  Perhaps
> you could elaborate a little more on the separate PU branding?
> 
>  - Tony Yarusso

It's a polite formality... perhaps just diplomacy.   Some in TCLUG are/were somewhat possessive and may not understand that TCLUG really isn't any more than a list and web site.


Chuck