The Things from The Basement

[Jim Herrmann]

Jonathan,

This group operates a littlebit  like linux does.  It's free, nobody is 
really in charge, but it works.  Actually we do spend a little money here and 
there, like on the Red Hat CDs we burned, and Hal is sort of in charge 
because he books the free room at the library and maintains the web site, but 
it does work for it's purpose.  

It works without much work on anybody's part, and at no cost to the members.  
I'm currently the president of the Heart of America DB2 Users Group, and that 
group is run completely differently.  It costs money to attend, we rent a 
auditorium sized room at the BTA for our quarterly meetings, we provide 
lunch, meetings are held during the day, we have a whole officer structure to 
take care of all the details, and it's a lot of work for these people.

Personally, I think both groups are appropriate for their respective target 
audiences.  DB2 people are corporate IT folks that are used to spending money 
for more formal training, and Linux people are used to belonging to a 
community were the product is free, and you get out of it what you put into.  
This is not to say that you can't be both, as I am, obviously.

If you would like to have more structure and hierarchy, you are welcome to 
try and drum up support for it.

Didn't mean for this to be a diatribe on the relative benefits of user group 
structures, but I felt that I had information to offer.  I hope that clears 
it up for you.

On Wednesday 16 January 2002 09:29 pm, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> This is getting out of hand.
>
> Do we have an actual operating structure for KCLUG?  BOD, Sec'try,
> Tresurer, etc?
>
> If so, someone please contact me.
>
>