[ILUG] Bootable business cards

[Niall]

 On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 01:15:28PM -0400, Dan York wrote:

> Thank you for contacting us about our Bootable Business Card (BBC)
> and we have received your request for BBCs.  However, we have recently
> had some changes here 


Well, that was from the man in Linuxcare. A master of understatement, I
would say :-) Anyway, he wanted my/our details again and I've told him about
the AGM so I hope to have some BBCs for that. However, he also said

> Because of the high volume of requests we usually send 10 BBCs 
> and encourage groups to use them as prizes.
> We regret that we simply cannot send large numbers so that every
> LUG member can have one. We hope you understand.

so that's the story there. I might add that that was not the story
previously so obviously the death of the IPO has meant belt tightening all
around. 

He asked 

> In order to help us quickly process your request, please send me
> the following information if you have not already done so:
> 
>  - your mailing address (we will be mailing from San Francisco, USA)
>  - the name of your user group
>  - your role within the user group

and this is all fine, except for the role thing. My real role here is Person
In The User Group Who Saw Something Somewhere About The Bootable Business
Cards And Decided That We Could Do With Some Of Those but I didn't think
that would sound so good, so I decided to appoint myself secretary of the ILUG, as it
seemed like a good role to be asking for goodies from a vendor. I haven't
looked at the constitution in a while, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't allow
for people to vote themselves unanimously into office :-) but don't woory
about it - you can oust me at the AGM in a month's time. Meantime, can I
have a company credit card to take care of legitimate expenses ?


Kindest regards,


Niall