[AUUG-Talk]: Re: AUUG: Time to pull the plug?

[Steve Landers]

On 14/09/2006, at 5:49 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Enno Davids wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> In a very real sense, I suspect the few names we see commenting  
>> here are
>> the ones who still care.
>
> Well, as a Founding Member (and past Pres) I certainly care; it's just
> that my "free" time (hah!) is already stretched between two other
> voluntary organisation (none of them computer-related, thank Babbage,
> otherwise I'd go nuts).

I know that feeling, just not well enough :)

> Should AUUG fail, I would prefer to see the assets go to the John  
> Lions
> Chair; I was one of the team that did his proof-reading, and made  
> available
> a (then) high-quality printer for the final cut.  I would hate to  
> see it
> go to the Penguins...

AUUG won't fail - we'd gently euthanize it well before that ;-)

One of the issues the incoming board addressed is how to gracefully  
wind AUUG up if that ever needed to be done.  The two  main  
considerations were preserving the 30+ years of history and finding a  
suitable organisation to pass on any assets - one consistent with the  
aims of AUUG over the years. The John Lions Chair figured prominently  
in that discussion.

Hopefully it won't come to that - my personal view is that it plays a  
vital role in avoiding a mono-culture within the Open Source and  
operating system world. But it's future is surely different than its  
past and time will tell how successful we are at making the transition.

Steve