[Charlug] Re: new affiliation with PC3.org

[Justin Moore]

Sean Hogston wrote:
> Personally I am opposed to merging with any other group. The details of 
> an affiliation would have to be very clear for me to be onboard with 
> that. Especially since they are not a Linux LUG their direction may be 
> greatly different from ours. Having some type of relationship like we 
> have with the UNCC lug may be a better choice. We share info and cross 
> post about events etc but there is no real tie to them. Being the 
> devil's advocate you have to think about what would happen if that group 
> were to have a negative event and how that would effect us if we are 
> affiliated with them.

This is pretty much along the lines of what I've been thinking myself. I 
don't see much, if any, reason that such a relationship would need to be 
so formal. I'm not at all familiar with PC3, but I'm sure that there are 
areas that we can help them in (providing speakers/demos) and by doing 
so, we can also further our cause of promoting the use of GNU/Linux and 
other FOSS. But like I said, to do so, we have no need to formally enter 
into some affiliation with them. I think that an informal arrangement 
like Sean has mentioned (much like our cooperation with UNCC LUG) would 
better suit all involved.