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Re: [Linux-aus] linux professional groups

Anthony Towns wrote:

Basically, I wonder what sort of professional groups are... effective,
or fun, or useful, or desirable, or something for people.

I believe the problem you may have with some "Linux" focus is overlap with other groups. You have the ACS, you have groups like AJUG and so on, SAGE-AU takes care of the sys admin focus. There would be very little value for me personally to be a member of yet another group that somehow overlaps groups I'm already a member of.

There's also obviously SAGE, which does a much better job, but is
focussed on systems administration in general, which I look at as more
of a necessary evil than something interesting :) AIUI, they have a
regular meeting on a weeknight that consists of a talk and some food,
and that's pretty much it.

You forget to mention the other member resources. An active (sometimes overly so) IRC channel, and very useful technical mailing lists. The lists are all archived and easily searchable as well.

I guess what I'm wondering is if there's a lack of a group for
professional Linux developers in Brissie;

But what exactly would you discuss? Consider that C, Java, and Perl/Python/PHP are the major languages used on Linux, there exists groups already.

If we want a "professional community", does it make sense to have one
that brings together Linux-friendly management types as well as hackers,
and if so, what sort of talks do you have then? Or what's you excuse
for a get together?

I see the key problem being the lack of Linux centric work places. Short of the now gone ePipe, Snapgear, or Red Hat I struggle to think of any workplace where the primary focus is Linux, rather than software in general.

There's too much diversity in any workplace I've ever been in to actually have a desire to focus only on Linux as part of a group.

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David Jericho
Senior Systems Administrator, Plugged In Software