[TriLUG] steering committee vacancy

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Matt Frye wrote:

> On 9/20/05, Tanner Lovelace <clubjuggler at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Because it let's the membership get one more datum on the
> > candidates personality.  
> 
> On 9/20/05, Joel Ebel <jbebel at ncsu.edu> wrote:
> > If you were running for the SC of a racing club people would probably
> > want to know what kind of car you drive.  
> 
> Thanks Tanner and Joel.  I appreciate your responses.  While I
> understand that one can derive more information about a candidate from
> what distro they use, I fail to see how that is germane to being an
> effective member of the steering committee.
> 
> Whether a candidate uses Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Uhooplah, or  "AOL
> Linux for Windows ME" doesn't make any candidate any more qualified to
> fulfill the duties of a steering committee position.  What it does, is
> present new and interesting ways to divide us.

Matt, I think you're being pessimistic that the "distro of choice" 
discussion is meant as divisive.  It's simply a data point, a piece of 
information that could start a further discussion (if warranted), or 
simply be looked over.  Just because someone likes a particular distro 
does not mean they aren't interested in others.   And plus, we wouldn't 
want to elect all Red Hat wonks, right?  ;-)

My distro of choice has been Fedora Core and Red Hat Linux, which 
apparently today represent a more "conservative" feel - it's a known 
quantity, well-understood, effective, but not necessarily best-liked.  But 
I'm not running for Steering Committee.  :-)

Jeremy

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