Re: [SLUG] Linux Missionaries

From: Russell Hires (rhires@earthlink.net)
Date: Fri Dec 06 2002 - 23:02:04 EST


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On Friday 06 December 2002 22:47 pm, you wrote:
> I commented the same to Paul off list. This opens a bigger discussion
> of the competency of our missionaries, some default rate to charge,
> professionalism, ground rules of conduct, basic understanding of
> liability, more...
>
> I think it's a great idea, and would even like to see maybe some
> advanced level of SLUG that could be oriented towards training. SLUG
> SAGE?

What is SAGE?

> We could have an unofficial competency grade for missionaries,
> then if there was enough interest we could organize training for LPI or
> RH certs.

Well, at some point we would become a company, incorporated, even. Eek!

> Hmmm, lots of questions... Should there be some fee to join and should
> some of the missionary rate go back to SLUG SAGE?

This all goes against the whole "missionary" idea. If we go with a modified
definition, we're spreading the word about Linux. The original missionaries
did it for free. Naturally there was an infrastructure supporting them, but
that's a different story. Let the genie out of the bottle, and you can't put
it back! ;-)

Russell
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