[sf-lug] Introduction....

[Samir Faci]

SCALE definitely looks pretty awesome. Thanks for all the info, and
I'll probably linger and show up to more events, hope meet a few more
of the regulars.



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.
>
>> 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/ .
>
>> 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.
>
> 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.
>
>> 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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