Welcome aboard, Justin! I've only been to a couple of meetings (I got
into it due to a friend at work) but rest assured you can learn as
little or as much as you want, and you can be as conspicuous (or
inconspicuous) as you want. Give it a shot. What have you got to
lose?
I wonder if Angelina Jolie runs Linux at home? Wouldn't THAT be cool.
Eric
On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 07:50:27 -0500, Russell Hires <rhires@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Welcome to the club! I know more about a lot of computer stuff than the
> people I work with (and the techies!), and I have a non-technical job,
> but the SLUG people don't make you feel stupid, they make you feel at
> home! It's great to be around people that share your interest, and know
> what you know, and know what you don't know. But you'll be surprised at
> what you know that they don't. This isn't some type of jargon filled
> meeting of brain surgeons; it's going to be people who are enthusiastic
> about what they're doing, hobbyists and professionals and in-betweens. I
> call it my nerd meeting to people who don't get it... :-) But the guys
> and gals who show up are far from nerds/nerdy/etc...they're the coolest
> people on the planet! So go, enjoy yourself.
>
> Russell
>
>
>
> On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 11:01, 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
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