[kwlug-disc] I miss KWLUG so badly!

[jekerr at sdf.org]

Me Too!!!!

Hello everyone,

As John Lennon said "Life is what happens when you are busy making other
plans". In the last couple of years Mary and I have added activities to
our life that if not conflicting with the LUG meeting directly, has placed
me in the position of having the need to stay at home and catch up on
stuff -- "stop the world I want to get off".
I have missed quite a few meetings in 2017. I hope to get back in the
swing of things soon, but I want you to know that I did not go away mad, I
just became kept back for one reason or another.

Cheers

John

>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I just had to say how much I'm missing KWLUG.
>
> The organizational skills by Paul, Andrew, and everyone are sorely
> missed in Vancouver.
>
>
> /begin rant
>
> Since arriving back in Vancouver in July, there has been *one*
> presentation at VanLUG - a display of BSD file system hierarchy.
>
> On average, 3-4 regulars attend and a couple stragglers.  There are
> *nine* Board of Director members though.
>
>
>
> The web site states:
>
>> As a registered non-profit society in British Columbia, VanLUG is
>> governed by a volunteer Board of Directors. Without its executive,
>> the VanLUG community would be quite disfunctional [sic].
>
> Yet the president admitted on the recently restarted mailing list:
>
>> Although we've been working on our website for *years*, we have yet to
>> get the back-end to function properly. We can't input data manually,
>> we can't get proper reports out, we can't transfer funds into our
>> bank account. MySQL currently tells us that VanLUG has three
>> members.
>
> It's unfathomable that a LUG would spend "years" on a simple web site
> and still be non-functioning.
>
>
> They want $20 per year for membership.
>
>
> * Their web site listed monthly meetings on the 2nd monday of each
> month, and on another page, on the 3rd monday of each month.
> * The mailing list was out-sourced and they lost all data.
> * Their Twitter account wasn't even registered.
> * The "Contact Us at the form below" ... didn't actually have a form to
> contact them at.
> * etc ad nauseam
>
> /end rant
>
> Gawd, I miss KWLUG!
>
>
> r b
>
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