[TriLUG] Trilug -- Current Status

[Bill Weinel via TriLUG]

I would agree. Doing whatever is necessary to save the local group would 
indeed be a worthwhile endeavor. Just having a local Linux users group 
available as a resource here is something which is unavailable in many 
parts of the country. If there is a way to keep it active, all efforts 
should be made to do so.

With the availability of online meeting software for just about any 
platform these days, there's really no barrier now to keep people with 
an interest from participating in an organization on a regular basis. 
(In fact, one of the local clubs in which I am a member, has used this 
format for their monthly meetings since the beginning of the pandemic.) 
The added benefit is that those members who are physically challenged, 
without transportation, or not currently available in the local area can 
now easily participate in club meetings whenever they occur. It also 
broadens the variety of programs available for club meetings, since it 
makes it easier to bring in guest presenters from different areas of the 
country or the world.

I also wonder if part of the problem is a lack of knowledge, on the part 
of prospective members, that this resource is available. Perhaps more 
needs to be done to promote it to interested parties. I suspect that 
with the broader usage of the Linux operating system these days, that 
there is likely a greater interest in having a local resource for 
related topics available.

All the best,
Bill


On 5/9/24 12:35, Cristóbal Palmer via TriLUG wrote:
> On Thu, May 9, 2024, at 12:09, William Sutton via TriLUG wrote:
>> There's been a bit of discusion about this on libera IRC #trilug.  The
>> general consensus, unfortunately, appears to be that TriLUG is dying.
>> Cristobal could probably provide more info on that.
> I'm disappointed that things have continued to decay. I wrote about this last November:
>
> https://www.trilug.org/pipermail/trilug/Week-of-Mon-20231030/080875.html
>
> More recently, what I noticed was a high volume of spam making it to my inbox (I'm still on the -steering list), and what I did to help address that was to log into the system handling mail (pilot) and re-enable greylisting, which at some point in the past had been disabled. I then posted about my change both on the host through a wall message and on IRC.
>
> The correct path forward would be, as I mentioned in the post I linked above, to migrate to a currently-supported platform (OS, MTA, Mailing List Manager, etc. etc.) and not simply shut off the ability of the public to reach the SC.
>
> I'll go further: on the 12th of June of 2023 I sent a message to the Steering list in which I shared a PDF version of this document:
>
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTaDFN0iAdfZVyiySbi4Rfaxjr89XJur8iK5Oit5M6wPGhoILpZQFWbH_dUbXNM42ffdWjq29Gvvpfj/pub>
>
> I shared it privately because ibiblio does not typically solicit collections. My longstanding personal connection to TriLUG lead me to draft that proposal in the first place, and the fact that 11 months have passed and TriLUG is in the same situation now compels me to share with the wider group and on a publicly-archived list. I will be very sad if TriLUG falls apart, and I'd like to help prevent that from happening.
>
> -CMP