Justin Prior wrote:
> Greattings All,
>
> I am an intermeidate/beginner Linux user. I am completely self taught and
> have installed about every distro you can name (Gentoo, Debian (and
> variants), Slackware (and variants), Mandrake, Red Hat, Fedora, Suse, etc)
> and my 2 PCs (one IBM 300PL and an Athlon 2400 system I built myself). I
> can do a fair amount of things from the command line (edit files, file
> management). To get to the point, I want to come to a meeting but feel
> that I would be overwhlemed with technical jargon and be shunned. Maybe I
> am being stupid/irrational but the fear exists none the less. Don't get
> me wrong, I read plenty and try to grow my understanding of things but my
> job is nontechnical and my skills seem to outpace our computer folks at
> work to a certain degree. What can I expect at a meeting? Will I be
> lost? Thanks for any and all comments and/or suggestions.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Justin
If you attend either the St. Petersburg or Tampa meetings, you can
always sit near the back and be reasonably quiet. Some people will
notice you're there, but unless you make yourself unignorable, directly
participate, or look like Angelina Jolie, you can probably be a
wallflower if you want to without any trouble whatsoever.
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