[TriLUG] Do Linux User groups still serve a useful purpose?

Sat Apr 27 12:11:12 EDT 2013

Tim

 "Maybe blow "common core" out of
> the water with a real, organized, and in depth curriculum for compsci and
> compengr based on Linux."

This would be an awesome thing to bring into existence and it seems
like all the resources could potentially be lined up for it as well.
Integration with open badges and open course-ware could be used.
Perhaps some grant and sponsor money for hack-a-thons and content
sprints would fairly easy to come by. It could strengthen LUGs
affiliation with the education system as well.

Jeremy

On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Tim Jowers <timjowers at gmail.com> wrote:
> Jeremy,
>
>  I like that train of thought. Get the LUG's together to do something
> great.
>
> For me, LUG's are really the only contact with people who actually know
> anything. I work in business IT; so most of my interaction is with people
> who don't even know what a filesystem is. /dev/null's
>
> Not sure what something great LUGs could do. But seems we have enough
> grassroots people. OLPC was a good idea. Maybe blow "common core" out of
> the water with a real, organized, and in depth curriculum for compsci and
> compengr based on Linux. Maybe could partner with some of the general
> curriculum efforts such as what Ron Paul is doing and others have done.
>
> Tim
>
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 11:14 PM, Jeremy Davis
> <jeremydavis at jeremydavis.biz>wrote:
>
>> I hope LUGs continue to hang around. Going to a Microsoft User Group
>> would be like getting MUGed. It just wouldn't be the same.
>>
>> Focus on how to run a business on Linux sounds like a good direction
>> to steer LUGs in general. Another goal is outreach to drive Linux and
>> other open source items into the education system. LUGs could focus on
>> educating public officials that our government could do without
>> Microsoft, that could be a meaningful purpose for LUGs.
>>
>> If it were possible to get all the LUGs on the same sheet of music, it
>> would be fun to do a petition on the "We The People" platform and get
>> 100k people to sign it, which would require a response from the White
>> House. That would be a useful purpose for LUGs.
>>
>> It would be cool to make the White House explain why taxpayers pay
>> billions to Microsoft and get nothing in return, while Linux is free.
>> In contrast, using tax dollars to pay for research and improvements to
>> Linux would benefit everyone.
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 10:56 PM, Aaron Joyner <aaron at joyner.ws> wrote:
>> > Do communities of like minded individuals still serve a purpose?  My, how
>> > very abstract and meta our discussions have become here at TriLUG.  :)
>> >
>> > Aaron S. Joyner
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 10:51 PM, William Sutton <william at trilug.org>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> I still find LUGs useful for general ongoing personal knowledge
>> >> enhancement (even if only from the mailing list or from IRC).
>> >>
>> >> And of course, they still serve a useful purpose for jobs notifications
>> to
>> >> people with a common tech interest.
>> >>
>> >> William Sutton
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, 26 Apr 2013, Alan Porter wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>> Purpose of a LUG?
>> >>>
>> >>> I attend TriLUG meetings to keep up with Linux nerds.
>> >>> Even when the presentation topic does not interest me.
>> >>>
>> >>> Alan
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