[KLUG Members] loyalty, maturity and responsibility

[Lunitix]

As for myself,

This was a resignation from volunteering.  I am disgruntled with the 
dissemination of information from the leadership and feel at this time 
it is better to be in the dark than be in the "would like to have known".

Communication is the key to that which broke the monkey's back.  When 
the new leadership made the conscience decision to not communicate with 
the volunteers and the membership, then it became the decision of 
several members to no longer be participants in this organization.

My thoughts are that the leadership made a fatal error and there only 
recourse is to reboot.  Which is what they are doing.  But it is quite 
possible the drive has been corrupted enough that it won't.  But it is 
possible that the memory leak will be corrected and the system will 
return to stability.

As for the "selfish behavior" - Life is too short to dance with ugly 
women.  The leadership was entrusted with the care of the group and as 
far as some are concerned they have abused it to the point of life 
support.  It's more than picking up marbles if the game stinks, it's 
cashing out the investment before the stock is junk.

This group is making moves toward general public education and the 
people who left are those who look more toward the professional user. 
This may make for a more diversified group of users being reached with 
less "guff" from either group.  It has long been a issue as to who KLUG 
is directing it's attentions towards.  Now these groups are seperate.

So which is "mature" - "Stand and Fight" or "Turn The Other Cheek".
There are arguments for both, but only one can be chosen.  You are 
choosing to stand and fight for the Group as it is.  Others are choosing 
to turn away instead creating such problems that the group would surely 
dissolve.  Instead of making digs at those who have chosen to leave, you 
should respect their decision.  Maturity here is two sided.  They chose 
to leave and not create more issues and yours is to support that which 
is left. We all can survive this and be better as seperate entities.

Eric Beversluis wrote:
> Consider some guys who have been members of a group for half a dozen or
> so years--a group they consider very important and to which they've
> devoted much energy. Now they find that the currently elected leadership
> of the group is doing things that are not to their liking. What's the
> mature and nonselfish thing to do? Surely not just to pick up their
> marbles and go play some place else. Such behavior not only indicates a
> selfish interest in themselves and their own satisfaction but also the
> lack of enough maturity to stick with the group and try to move it in a
> more satisfactory direction. And, furthermore, if the group has general
> social value--as, for example, a group that is a 501(3)c public
> charity--then maybe there are also nonselfish reasons for sticking with
> the group, despite temporary dissatisfactions, rather than sulking off
> to start another group.
> 
> EB
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