Re: IRC Meeting Action Items - 20100921

[Frederic Muller <fred beijinglug org>]

On 09/25/2010 12:36 PM, Emily Chen wrote:
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>     Isn't there a conflict of interest? Shouldn't we deal with a
>     "neutral" 3rd party making any issue in our dealings a lot easier to
>     settle?
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> Can you introduce a  a "neutral" 3rd party to us ? The "one selling
> T-shirt (free software) community"?

I don't have any in my address book. It's something we as a community 
need to look into. What I am saying is that selecting a member of our 
community to sell t-shirt is a dangerous path, or the community decides 
to handle the shop themselves. But it should be a carefully thought out 
decision.

For the other community I'm talking about, I'd prefer not to be 
associated with them in any way. They seem more focused on selling their 
t-shirts that promoting free software or whatever they're supposed to 
promote. @ Blug we call "them" the T-shirt salesman.... I have yet to 
see any passion in Free and Open Source from that individual and really 
think that to be associated or compared with his behavior would reflect 
very badly on our community. -> which is why it's probably best to 
select a "neutral seller".

I think we have time, it's not like we NEED to sell stuff tomorrow and 
have no other choice.


> We are happy to work with other organization as long as it make things
> done.
>
> -Emily
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>     We already have "one selling T-shirt (free software) community" in
>     Beijing, do you want to be the 2nd one?
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>     Fred