[Linux-aus] LUV considering joining LA

[Bret Busby]

For some strange reason - I assume that it is the email application that 
was used to post the original message to which I am responding, the text 
of the message to which I am responding, is withheld from being included 
in this reply.

I am wondering why a state based Linux Users Group would dissolve and 
reform as a subcommittee of the federal body.

It seems to me, to be more logical for state organisations to exist in 
parallel with the federal body, and, independent of the federal body, 
when people can be members directly of the federal body, otherwise for 
people to be members of state bodies, with the state bodies thence 
being affiliates of the federal body.

But, I do not see the logic in a state body dissolving and forming as a 
subcommittee of a federal body.

The closest analogy that comes to mind, is the scenario of a state 
government surrendering itself to the federal government, as dissolution 
of the state, with the state government giving control to the federal 
government.

All kinds of questions thus arise; as a single example, if the 
Victorian subcommittee of Linux Australia, or, whatever it would 
be named, should, some time in the future, be inclined to host a CALU, 
would it be appropriate for a subcomittee of Linux Australia, to lodge a 
bid to do something, competing against bodies that are not components of 
Linux Australia? What then of "conflicts of interests", when a 
determination is to be made, by Linux Australia, as to whether one of 
its subcommittees, or, a state organisation, should be successful?

Thus do I wonder about the reasons and consequences of such a move.

--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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"So once you do know what the question actually is,
  you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
   Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
   "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
   A Trilogy In Four Parts",
   written by Douglas Adams,
   published by Pan Books, 1992
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