metalug.com.org.net.ca and the MetaLUG Foundation.

[Russell McOrmond]

David J Patrick wrote:
> OK ubuntuers, here's the full poop;
> 
> metalug.com.org.net.ca and the MetaLUG Foundation.


   One of the things I worry about is fragmentation of our community. 
There are groups that are already trying to do some of this work that 
could use the energy of new volunteers/etc.

   I'm the new (as of the beginning of 2006) policy coordinator for 
CLUE.  We have expanded from being a LUG of LUGs (CLUE stood for the 
Canadian Linux User Exchange) to being a full-blown Association for Open 
Source.  This means an expansion beyond users and beyond just Linux.

   My roll is to expand the type of work I've been doing in Ottawa on 
behalf of the FLOSS community (via http://digital-copyright.ca and 
http://GOSLINGcommunity.org), hopefully with the help of additional CLUE 
volunteers (and when resources allow, paid staff).

   http://www.cluecan.ca/mcormond

   While I was brought in to do policy work, this does not  mean that 
CLUE is no longer doing the work it was trying to do when it was the 
Canadian LUG of LUGs.

   http://www.cluecan.ca/projects


   I'm told there is multiple LUGs in Toronto.  I'm wondering if this 
best serves the community to have different groups, rather than trying 
to get along with each other?  If there are factions of Linux users in 
Toronto that aren't that keen on communicating, I can understand now why 
Bill Traynor and others at CLUE have been having such a hard time.


   I'm told that there are plans for you (David J Patrick) to speak with 
Evan Leibovitch, our Executive Director.  I look forward to the 
possibilities, and hope that there will be a way to come together as a 
larger community rather than continue to fragment.


   Thanks for reading, and I hope people will consider CLUE as an 
existing group that is trying to get the Canadian FLOSS community together.

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