[Linux-aus] LUGs

[Craige McWhirter]

Hi Ashley :-)

It's been a few decades...

On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 09:54:45 +1000, Ashley via linux-aus wrote:

> Slug was a great place for normal users to meet and learn. Then in the later
> years from about 2014 or so it was taken over by the corporate users,
> sysadmins and such and moved completely away from its roots.

Part of that change I feel was less being taken over by corporate users than
the reality that many of us found work with Linux so the interest of the more
active / vocal users shifted from solving hobbyist problems to solving
workplace problems.

While my recollection is that almost all of us started out as student,
hobbyists and academics playing with Linux by about 2000 most of us were being
paid to work on Linux. By the time Ubuntu rolled out, killing community
outreach like installfests, the scene, likes it's members, had shifted
significantly.

For a good chunk of that period, SLUG had two monthly meetings - second one
solely devoted to Debian - and there could have even more specialised meetups
but they sprung up independently of SLUG.

Last time I was in Sydney there were more niche meetups than you could possibly
attend and the SLUG team like many LUGS have struggled for about a decade with
the questions "Where do we fit in? What do we do?" - as has Linux Australia
itself.

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Craige McWhirter
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