| Nicholas Vettese on Tue, 20 Mar 2001 22:27:53 -0500 |
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I provided exactly what you needed to start the group. I had the name and I had memebers. You only had yourself and a neighbor. Oh, and I forgot, you had the meeting place. So that I guess made you the leader. I didn't want to be a leader of any group, and you certainly weren't fitting the bill. You may think you are the leader, but dictator would be more fitting. You can actually see it coming out in these discussions. My group doesn't have a leader per se. We are a group of one that makes decisions with each other.From: Gerald Neale <jesran@yahoo.com> Reply-To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org Subject: Re: [PLUG] South Jersey Linux User's Group alive and well. Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 14:59:16 -0800 (PST) Therefore I started a LUG myself. You wanted to help out so you gave us your name and refered some people to us. Thank you very much. But I suspected then and know now that you were not simply being generous. You suspected nothing. You confided in me on making money off of this group. I wasn't sticking around much longer. You said your wife thought you were playing around too long with this and wanted to see you make money with it, and it wasn't a job in Linux Turns out those people were all under the notion that this was your group. They quickly realized that it was not when you failed to show up for your own discussion and never came back to a meeting. Well for the most of them, I was their first contact. I was setting everything up, and you emailed me and said you had a place to meet. You seemed very excited to have me, and the people I brought. Yes, I had one failed attempt prior to working with you, but sometimes you must fail before you succeed. At the time when I left, I was in the middle of starting a new job, and a lot was going on. I had to work late hours, and a lot of them. Forgive me if I put my family above you. Co-Founder. I founded SLUG a year before I met you. It is not like you had the idea before anyone else. I have been working extremely hard for the new group. I have been getting sponsorships, meeting room (just one, we always know which room we are meeting in),and we are going to have guest speakers in a bit. We have a great group of well rounded individuals that corners many areas of Linux. I am glad you think you are always right. And that is why your group has refused to grow since I left. Your group started with 4 or 5 members, and has grown to 15 since the summer. The group I am with now started with 8, and is about to reach 20. I founded your group, and you are upset because I won't release the name for you to contact companies to get freebies. I won't release the name to you, because our group has been working with companies, and I have spoken to many vendors on the phone getting a releationship with them. I apologize to this group for taking up their time, but I am more apologetic because they had to see what kind of power hungry person you are.You were not founder or co-founder of any LUG that has taken root. So please don't portend it as so. It takes more than ambition to run a LUG. To the people of PLUG, I am sorry for this. http://slug.happyduck.org was around way before the www.p3.net group was around. SLUG has always been a project of mine, and now I am getting to share it with the community. It has been around for nearly 3 years, and we are getting stronger everyday. Nicholas Vettese http://slug.happyduck.org/ nick@happyduck.org __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
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