On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 08:27:11PM +1000, James Purser wrote: > > AUUG's issues are their own, and I think separate to our considerations. > AUUG fulfills a role for those who may not agree with our way of doing > things, and for those who work extensively with the proprietary *nixes. > To be honest, this is my gut reaction to AUUG's difficulties. I have used and enjoyed Solaris and AIX and Irix and OS X, and so I can see where a users' group for them would have a niche in the Unix ecosystem. But the Unix community _is_ an ecosystem. It's not particularly necessary for LA to expand until it occupies all niches in that ecosystem, and as an ordinary member I'd really rather it didn't try. Perhaps just refounding AUUG as something a little less fragile, that incorporates some of the excellent suggestions that have featured on this thread? Surely such a reborn organisation would be welcome amongst us; they might even replace the conference that's giving them such heartburn with their own miniconf at LCA, and that would be a hoot. unix.conf.au does have such a nice ring to it... Cheers, Horatio
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