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On Sun, 2010-09-19 at 20:15 +0100, tom brough wrote: > To say just because people are apathetic in general its OK to continue > to be as someone else will pick up the slack for me sounds a lame > excuse. You can use open source software 364 days of the year and I wont > disturb you in fact I would be elated, BUT just asking people to give up > 24 hours (8 hours for the event itself + 16 hours prep during the year) > doesn't seem to me to be too much to ask in return. Its not like I'm > asking you to do something you don't do already... I don't disagree in principle, but you just can't *expect" people to do it because your own belief is that they should, or that you already do. I think it actually did not cast the LUG in a very good light to the (guessing here) many lurkers on the list. > If you don't want to contribute anything else, or you are busy > contributing in some other way .... that's fine, but for the one date in > the calendar that can make a difference, should we not make the effort? If people want to contribute then they will, sometimes a little gentle poking is needed for sure, but if they don't then I thought that was ok too by the community at large. -- John http://subbass.blogspot.com/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq