[PLUG] Re: vmware special? offer

Anderson, Robert H - MWT Anderson.Robert at menlolog.com
Mon Nov 24 11:39:02 UTC 2003


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dylan Reinhardt [mailto:plug at dylanreinhardt.com] 
>Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 8:13 AM
>To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
>Cc: pdxlug at pdxlug.org
>Subject: Re: [PLUG] Re: vmware special? offer
>
>
>On 18 Nov 2003 20:54:43, Russell Senior <seniorr at aracnet.com> wrote:
>> So has anyone ever had a nice cup of coffee with the PDXLUG 
>people to 
>> work this whole name thing out?
>
>PDXLUG has coffee the second Thursday of each month at the 
>Fireside Coffee Lodge.  There aren't any formal agendas, so if 
>you show up, feel free to bring up a topic for discussion.  
>
>Not that bringing up the name thing is likely to accomplish much. :-)  
>
>Open source has a long history of using names that are 
>intentionally similar to established names.  If people can be 
>expected to understand the difference between PGP and GPG, I 
>think they can sort out the difference between PDXLUG and PLUG.  
>
>Or maybe they can't tell the difference.  It might be the case 
>that our membership consists primarily of people who 
>mistakenly believe that PLUG meetings have recently changed 
>venues and become more fun.  Who knows.
>

PLUG has beer, PDXLUG has coffee. Guess which meeting (if any) you will find
me at.

-Rob Anderson

>
>> They are currently saying:
>> 
>>   ``We've had many people ask why another group spawned from 
>PLUG. The
>>     main reason is because we wanted a more informal gathering with a
>>     smaller group of people. [...]''
>
>
>PLUG isn't what many of us want for a LUG.  Others of us enjoy 
>that there is more than one style of LUG in town.  The rest is 
>historic.  
>
>
>> 
>> Now, if that is true, why choose an all-encompassing name like 
>> "Portland Linux User Group"?
>
>Because we are a group of Linux users in Portland.  We aren't 
>Portland's [Largest|Only|Oldest] LUG.  Just the most fun.  :-)
>
>
>>   Is this, indeed, declaring victory on the
>> basis of whatever situation is prevailing? ("we _WANT_ a smaller
>> group!")
>
>Our broader mission doesn't need to stand up to logic... we 
>don't *have* a broader mission.  What we *do* have is a user 
>group we actually enjoy belonging to.  No additional victory 
>is required.  
>
>$.02,
>
>Dylan
>
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