[sf-lug] Introduction....

[Samir Faci]

Inline....

On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 1:47 AM, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
> Quoting Samir Faci (samir at esamir.com):
>
>> Caldera 2.4 was pretty awesome.. something about having a pacman game
>> during the installation process was pretty slick.
>
> D00d.  Yes, it really was.  FWIW, I actually remember Caldera Network
> Desktop 1.0 Preview 2, and had a boxed set of it in my garage for many
> years.  (I eventually threw it away, about the same time I threw away
> the boxed set of StarOffice 4.x for Linux as repackaged by SuSE.
>
> But yes, the 2.4 installer was very cool.

yup, yup.  I remember being really annoyed when the next installer
(3.1? ) replaced pacman with solitaire.


>
>> 1.  I think Maestory mention something about a list that includes a
>> few more lugs in the area?  I'm aware of BerklyTipGlobal, BALUG, and
>> SFLUG and i'm sure there's a few more in south bay and easty bay.  I'd
>> love to see a list that's .... the ring to bind them all sort of
>> thing? an announcement list to all the lugs in the area?
>
> Maestro might have had in mind my BALE Web page,
> http://linuxmafia.com/bale/ .

Not sure if that was it, but thanks for the link either ways, that
looks promising.


>
>> 2.  I moved here from Chicago originally, and I was a bit surprised at
>> some of the lack of organization for concrete events.
>
> For historical and (arguably) geographic reasons, there is a great deal
> of fragmentation among separate efforts.  Most of those efforts are,
> very frankly, a shadow of their former selves.  The 2000-ish dot-com
> tech. industry depression hit the S.F. Bay Area really hard, and a large
> part of the vibrant Linux community here ceased to exist because the
> participants either moved out of the area (or country, depending) or
> ceased to work in technology at all.  The fallout from the post-2008
> financial crisis has been less severe (and less focussed on the tech.
> industry), but still pretty dire, and again the Linux community took a
> hit, making all of the various individual groups each a lot less strong.

Ah, that's unfortunate, but understandable.  I saw some decline in Chicago
as well, but I think it was mostly due to people's priorities shifting rather
then economy / boom related.  People graduating, moving on and nobody really
stepping in to fill there shoes.



>
> Also, there is a widely felt perception that Linux and open source are
> just not new and exciting any more.  Instead, they're infrastructure.
> There is a perception that LUGs are a solution to a problem from a
> bygone decade, and no longer needed.

Well, I'm not sure I agree with that statement.. but I don't think
LUGs/Linux need
to focus solely on the OS.  One thing I liked about LUGs, is that it
wasn't just the technical
aspect that drew people in, but also the community, philosophy behind
and the whole idea
Sharing information to make the world a better place? OLPC is a great
example of using Linux
for grander purposes.  John Maddog is another one, he had this whole
project about bringing
computing resources and making them more available in Brazil
(http://www.projectcaua.org/ ).
I always like hearing him speak.. I'm not always sure if he's projects
are realistic...but he sure has some fun ideas.

Anyways, that's the sort of mentality that appealed to me in lugs,
much more then just getting
together and installing Linux.

sorry.. a minor hippy rant going on there.... back to your regular programs.

>
>> I'm not aware of any Linux themed user conferences
>
> SCALE is by far one of the very best in North America.
>
> FWIW, you've just missed the second April meeting of CABAL, the Linux
> user group that meets at my and my wife's house in Menlo Park, just
> north of Stanford University.  http://linuxmafia.com/cabal/
>
>
>
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