[klug] No meeting this week. KLUG "defunct"

[kluglinux.grp.lancer at xoxy.net]

This is difficult to write succinctly, other than to say that KLUG has 
died its own natural death.

Last meeting, I had been looking forward to the arrival of one Leo 
Ramakers, new to KLUG.

You may remember Leo's earlier posting (14/9/06) where he promised an 
ability of refocusing the purpose of KLUG, enabling us to have greater 
clout with vendors & similar interest linux groups. He'd suggested we 
could find ways of identifying and improving our allocation of 
resources, which would ultimately cater for all levels of members etc 
etc and generally increase our overall "buying power" as a group.

In fact, last meeting things quickly went the opposite direction. Aside 
from one newcomer who I'd been in touch with (he would have liked to 
have come but had other things asking of him that evening, so I'd 
specifically told him not to feel pressured) the only other KLUG member 
showing happened to be Leo's friend Peter Dinnans who'd introduced Leo 
to the group.

At this point, it was concluded that KLUG has nothing to offer anyone 
and that it would be better to declare it "defunct" than to go on 
pretending things are happening each week.

Looks like KLUG has no resources to allocate, or perhaps just no longer 
the levels of members to cater for.

It's a pity. For my own part, the school had only recently increased 
acceptance, acknowledging their own benefits in hosting for interest 
groups like KLUG.

No meeting then.


Lance Flavell.