This is going on all over the place. I am on four or five different LUGS
and all are seeing the same thing. The Linux World Expo is also dying down,
and in New York, it is no longer called Linux World...they changed it to
"Open Solutions Summit," and isn't nearly what is once used to be. Linux
has grown up and is now as mainstream as any Solaris or HP-UX environment.
At least that is what my largest Enterprise customers are saying.
I still have fun with it, but my personal drive now is to push Open Source
as I pushed Linux before. I know the two went hand-in-hand, but now that
Linux has graduated it appears that Open Source left to carry on the
flight...and that is who I will take sides with.
Thanks Paul, Bill and everyone else involved in SLUG leadership for so many
great years. I for one have enjoyed computing again, thanks to Linux, and
to the SLUG group!
Dave
On 5/26/07, Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com> wrote:
>
> savatage@mindspring.com wrote:
>
> > Hello everyone Bill Preece here… As many of you know we have had SLUG
> meetings in Brandon for many years…Norb, Diane and I were happy to have had
> the opportunity to be one of the first splinters for SLUG…
> > One point we even had 2 monthly Brandon meetings… As attendance began to
> drop to a point of low turn out we discontinued the Bimonthly meeting to
> build back up the attendance for the main Brandon Meetings…
> >
>
> <snip>
>
> This echoes what I said several months ago. List membership is also
> down. Moreover, the list content contains *far* fewer newbie questions
> than it used to. Postings are sparse (except for political threads), and
> most of what we get are edge cases on the list. Thinks like my GeeWhiz
> XYZ123 router doesn't seem to work with the latest version of
> FillInTheBlank Linux.
>
> I don't have any better answers than Bill does. Linux is easier and more
> widespread than it used to be. Answers are easier to come by than they
> were years ago when we started. Google is your friend. There are
> probably more mainstream users using it, and fewer geeks (relative to
> total Linux use).
>
> Where others may see this as a crisis or a problem, I don't. Linux has
> matured tremendously in the years since SLUG started. That's a good
> thing. If that means we have 4 or 5 meetings (or even 1) instead of 6
> per month, that's okay. We're still here to help and provide a way for
> those interested in Linux to come together. The website and list are
> still here, and there are still some diehard meeting locations going.
>
> And of course, you're welcome to imitate the folks in Sarasota who have
> the occasional get-together meeting outside the regular SLUG meetings.
> (You don't have to imitate their drunken brawling, though. ;-)
>
> Paul
>
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> Paul M. Foster
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