[Linux-aus] [Announce] 2024-2025 Annual report and Draft AGM Agenda

[Andrew Donnellan]

On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 at 14:22, Andrew Pam via linux-aus <
linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au> wrote:

> I strongly disagree with Craige's diagnosis and suggestions.  The
> evolution of LA over time was not in error, and we cannot return to the
> status quo ante and old glories by reverting to the ways of the past.
>
> The fact is that "Linux" in and of itself is no longer an exciting
> hobbyist field, just as electric lights, motors, radios, cars and many
> other technologies in the past started with highly active enthusiast
> groups which declined over time as the technology became part of the
> background of our civilisation.  I don't think there are any lighting or
> electric motor technology fan clubs any more and the amateur radio and
> car clubs are quite different now from the early days.
>

I entirely agree.


> LUV already spent considerable time and effort in past years providing a
> wide range of FOSS servers to the membership and got very little
> interest or adoption despite also running talks explaining each service
> and why it is useful and a workable alternative to a proprietary
> solution.  Most people seem to either be comfortable using the popular
> online services or if not, prefer to run their own.
>

There's also enough other people running Mastodon instances and so on. If
the LA community really wants to support services like Mastodon, then just
give one of the existing operators a grant, rather than setting up yet
another instance that will be used by a dozen people likely from one
particular clique within the LA community.


-- 
Andrew Donnellan
http://andrew.donnellan.id.au         andrew at donnellan.id.au
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