[TriLUG] Trilug -- Current Status

[Mauricio Tavares via TriLUG]

On Mon, May 13, 2024 at 4:58 PM Alan Porter via TriLUG
<trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Bill,
>
> I will take ownership of the steering@ email address being closed to
> non-member submissions.  That was me.
>
> A little background.  I set up pilot from scratch back in February of
> 2009 after someone hacked the old Mandrake-based server.
>
> The story - https://alanporter.com/blog/2009-03-01/pwn3d
>
> Since then, we have not had a whole lot of volunteer interest in
> maintaining our "cluster of one".  Occasionally we'll get a wave of
> enthusiasm around upgrading or migrating or splitting our single server.
> But we never made it over that hump.  For this reason, pilot is still
> running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
>
> Then, since COVID, we moved meetings to be virtual only.  Attendance
> has been pretty low.  And so we lost our cadence of having a planned
> meeting topic each month.  And donations.  And outreach.  And new
> membership.
>
> Likewise, the main mailing list traffic fell to only 272 messages for
> all of 2023 (that's 23 messages per month).
>
> Either we were not meeting the community's needs, or the need itself
> was dwindling.
>
> At the same time, the steering committee and perpetual lurkers would
> receive a dozen or so spam messages every day on the SC mailing list.
> And then this spring, the number went to the hundreds per day.  Also,
> some mail services started refusing connections from pilot.  We
> definitely had an active email problem.  Thanks to one member who
> volunteered to investigate what might be the root cause.  We're all
> busy.
>
> I can count on my fingers the number of general LUG request emails I
> have received on my trilug.org address.  But I have 9449 spam emails
> addressed to the SC.  So a few weeks ago, I made the decision to block
> email from/to sys at trilug.org and to close the SC mailing list to only
> members and the allow-list.
>
> I am sorry that your question fell on deaf ears, and that our web site
> did not contain current contact information.  I am also sorry to see the
> interest in the LUG wane.  But I am not going to try to force it back
> into being popular.
>
> If the LUG wants these things updated, we need some volunteers to do
> it.
>
> Alan Porter
> volunteer
> SC member 2008-2013
> TriLUG registered agent
> trilug.org domain contact
>
      Question I have is: what do the members want out of the LUG?