[huskerlug] Re: Future of hlug as a studen organization

When I became president, I didn't want the irregular meetings of the past so
I decided to have biweekly meetings.  This was too much, however, and it
burned out myself and probably a lot of other people that came to HLUG.
 When I stopped forcing meetings, meetings just went to zero and have sorta
remained that way as far as I know, despite chatter on lists. Also, I'm not
sure that LUGs are nearly as relevant these days as they were in the past.
 These days when someone has a question the person asks ubuntuforums.org,
bbs.archlinux.org, forums.gentoo.org, or whatever their specific
distribution's forum is.
The benefits for being a Recognized Student Organization (RSO) are less and
less.  It used to be that you could get free Pepsi products really easily,
but now there are new regulations that make it more of a pain.  (See
http://involved.unl.edu/soar/pepsi.php ) Room reservation should technically
require HLUG to be an RSO, however, I quickly found out that not reserving a
room was often easier than reserving a room because usually you can just
pick a room in Avery at night and it will be open.
The only problem I could see with dropping the university part of the
organization would be the future of the remaining funds in the Student
Organization Financial Services (SOFS) account.  I'm not sure if the funds
are surrendered or not. I need to reread some of the rules.  I'll look into
that tomorrow and find reply to the list with more information.


One benefit of separating from the university could be better meeting
places.  For example, meetings could happen at a pizza place, bar, and other
fun locations.

Also, I had to rejoin the list to post this and I'm thinking Freelists might
thread this as a new thread rather than a reply to Carl.  I hope not, and
sorry if it does.


Martin



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