C'mon guys.  There's a _very_ good reason that I joined KCLUG and
not KULUA:  I don't want to drive to Lawrence.  I don't have time
in my schedule to add two hours to my travel time.  Think of the 
people who live in Independence or further east, they'd have 3 hours
of driving for each meeting.

The Kansas City area Linux people _need_ KCLUG, which meets _in_
KC.  If we disbanded KCLUG and told everyone that they had to go
to Lawrence, no one would go.

Silicon valley has at least 5 LUGs because they need to split them
up.  The number of people in each one is large and travel times
there are ridiculously long.  Kansas City isn't so bad for travel
time, but that which we are not used to wasting becomes more
precious to us.

Enough.  Anyone is of course free to go to either or both groups.
But there is no way we should merge.  There is no reason to merge.

I vote against this.

Sincerely,

Tony Hammitt

"M. Osten" wrote:
> 
> But more to the point, are you suggesting that KULUA absorbed KCLUG into its
> ranks?  Or are you suggesting that we all divide the Linux demographic at
> say, DeSoto?  The truth be told, both groups had very little overlap until
> just recently (at least among the "active" members of KULUA that I've
> acctully met), and I didn't see it causing much dissolution.  I wouldn't
> mind a "merger", it just adds to the community, but the question is, could
> we all be nice neighbors.
>