Mike, I'm curious - what exactly do you think "leadership" might look like? As it stands - if someone feels like driving something they can take the ball and run with it. This make whoever leads an a particular item the leader on however much they choose to take on. I like to think of it as distributed leadership. I used to work with, and sometime organize, the *first* microcomputer computer club (SCEAM) in the twin cities area. The tasks mostly consisted of Newsletters (paper) printing, mailing and drumming up related advertising and editorial content, arranging, setting up and cleaning up meeting spaces, lining up speakers, and community projects which was mostly hardware support for nonprofit groups. I don't think it worked ANY better than what TCLUG is doing with distributed leadership,and the people that did the work did it until they got tired of it, and tired of being bitched at because people that did not actually do any of the work thought what was done was being done poorly. It does get old. Let me turn this back to you - do YOU want to lead the group in some direction? Mark Browne -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu> > On Fri, 10 Oct 2008, Jeremy wrote: > > >> Mike, please consider a new group. I am sure newcomers will appreciate > >> the efforts. > > > > A new group is a bad idea. This is a tempest in a teacup, and it will > > pass. > > > > Functionally speaking, splitting the group will not accomplish anything, > > except to reduce the usefulness of the mailing list, and make it that > > much harder to have meetings. > > > Maybe it will create even more opportunity than we have now. This group > is not very active and it has no leadership. > > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list