[Linux-aus] LUGs

[Ashley]

Hi Craig,

On 07/07/2023 1:52 pm, Craige McWhirter via linux-aus wrote:
> Hi Ashley :-)
>
> It's been a few decades...
It has been a long time.
>
> 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.
Unfortunately for the hobbyist this has been so. But it is good that 
Linux and FOSS have moved into more general use. I remember this is 
something we were all working for in the 90s.
> 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.
This was an outcome we had all hoped for and I am happy that it was one 
of the many achievements of the SLUG membership.
> 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.
I guess this is the inevitable outcome of a successful campaign. We were 
all such enthusiastic advocates of FOSS in general that we tended to 
render our own existence superfluous. We are still there in the 
background but our work advocating Linux and FOSS is not really needed 
any more. FOSS and Linux and its derivatives have become ubiquitous
> --
> Craige McWhirter
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Ashley Lynn