[TriLUG] TriLUG Ubuntu Fall Fund Drive

[Jason Tower]

i can't speak for mr. tate, nor do i know what was said specifically, 
but let me state for the record that trilug is distro-agnostic.  we as 
an organization do not favor any particular distro, nor do we diss any 
particular distro.  as long as it's linux, or maybe bsd, we're happy :)

having said that, there have been a few comments here and there 
suggesting that trilug is (or could be perceived as being) too 
redhat-centric.  this is possibly because:

- we're located in the same city as redhat's hq
- our monthly meetings held at redhat's hq
- several of our speakers have been redhat (or former redhat) employees

the first point tends to influence the latter two, but i see that as 
being a positive and not a negative.  i for one am very grateful that 
redhat has offered us the use of their facilities, and their large pool 
of linux and open source knowledge has provided us with many useful and 
interesting meeting topics.

i believe that trilug members represent a highly varied cross-section of 
linux users, very few of whom have demonstrated themselves to be redhat 
"fanboys".  i know for a fact that my fellow triluggers run mandrake, 
suse, debian, ubuntu, gentoo, slackware, and of course redhat and fedora 
(plus many others that i've omitted).  if anything, linux users tend to 
be contrarian by nature, and my experience suggests that the pro-redhat 
coalition in trilug is weaker than you'll find in other LUGs.

anyone who wishes to organize a presentation on a particular topic is 
invited to email steering at trilug.org.  generally speaking, we try to 
avoid anything distro-specific, but if we feel that a topic is 
interesting enough, we'll add it to the list.  personally, i think that 
a presentation about an open source project or technology is more 
compelling to our membership than a presentation about a specific 
distro, but we consider every suggestion made to the steering committee. 
  i'd say that at least half of our presentations are attributable to 
member's suggestions, so keep 'em coming!

jason tower
trilug steering committee chairman

Matt Frye wrote:
> I wish Mr Tate would pipe in here.  I suggested a Fedora presentation
> on IRC one day, and was told that it might be too distro biassed for
> TriLUG.  Maybe not being Debian made that distinction.  In any case, I
> would like to organize a Fedora presentation.  Who is responsible?
> 
> On 9/16/05, David McDowell <turnpike420 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>This is interesting Matt... I musta missed it, where was it deemed we
>>would NOT do Fedora?  I also agree, I think we should be open to
>>all... :)