<div dir="ltr"><div>So, I have a Discord account, and a Matrix account.</div><div><br></div><div>In the spirit of being a Linux-oriented group, FOSS in mind - maybe Matrix would be a better option? IRC is ok,but I got the heebies from trying to manage a couple channels back in the day. If you are comfortable doing it, by all means, #StALUG channel sounds good!<br></div><div><br></div><div>For my own introduction, my first intro to Linux was a Mandriva One Live/install CD I got in a magazine which I tried to revive an old PC from a tip with. I wanted to play Newgrounds com Flash videos, which I achieved with dubious success... I got into Linux properly after graduating St A, during work, via tech support for Red Hat and AS400 tech support (!!). I properly switched to it as a main system for my personal computers in around 2014, and use a mix of Ubuntu and derivatives, and CentOS; I got RHCSA in 2017 but now that's expired hehe.... I bill myself currently as an Ops/DevOps-oriented person. I had the title of "DevOps Engineer" in my lsat job. If you know DevOps, you know what that (doesn't) means....<br></div><div><br></div><div>I have been running the Edinburgh LUG since last year, and was organising the talks in 2016-2018 which is focused on open-source in general, not specifically Linux; and tried to maintain in-presence attendance there. We've had talks on BSD, various projects that were FOSS but non-Linux-specific. We have a mailing list that receives a few emails a month around advice and help, a Meetup com presence, and I host our webpages on Gitalb.io using Jekyll. Last year I started a Scotland Open Source Users Meetups effort which is now headed by Ashley "@MiniRidley", in a bid to unite efforts around open source in Scotland; she is now organising a podcast [1] for thr group and we are working on more event/workshop ideas for the future.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I would certainly be up for trying to build a community in the St Andrews tech & science population around FOSS ! I would like to recommend (my opinion merely!) that there be regular talks, and hands-on demos - say a talk every other month, and a workshop/case study demo in conjunction with a department that can benefit from Linux, once a month.....?</div><div><br></div><div>Tai<br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>[1]: <a href="https://twitter.com/ScotlandOSUM/status/1275085374981881857">https://twitter.com/ScotlandOSUM/status/1275085374981881857</a></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 at 20:20, Stuart McCulloch Anderson via StAndrews <<a href="mailto:standrews@mailman.lug.org.uk">standrews@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">So that's two against Discord.<br>
<br>
Matrix is a decentralized communication protocol which supports<br>
end-to-end encryption. You can create a free account at <a href="http://matrix.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">matrix.org</a> (or<br>
host the server your self) and still connect to any other public matrix<br>
room and chat with users across servers. The clients are also much nicer<br>
than any IRC ones I've found -- Sorry I've only been playing with it for<br>
a few days now but its really grabbed me<br>
<br>
However, mailing list are good but I still think a more instant chat is<br>
good where people can pop in and out of and talk about stuff that's too<br>
off topic to be on the mailing list so my preference is mailing list and<br>
Matrix, but I'm playing with installing a Matrix <-> IRC bridge so if<br>
the majority favor IRC I'll go with it.<br>
<br>
If we do go for IRC can I suggest #stalug on Freenode?<br>
<br>
I still remember finding my first Red Hat in a PC World in Glasgow. I<br>
think it was still on floppy disc! I also remember trying Mandrake at<br>
some point but didn't stick at that one long. I did user Gentoo for a<br>
while though but eventually got tired of compiling everything needed to<br>
install it and went on to Fedora, but I've now been using Ubuntu 6.<br>
<br>
Stuart<br>
<br>
On 25/06/2020 17:32, Roy Bamford via StAndrews wrote:<br>
> Hi everyone,<br>
><br>
> mailing lists and irc work for me.<br>
><br>
> discord ... not a chance. I read their terms of service.<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://matrix.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">matrix.org</a>?<br>
> I've not tried that.<br>
><br>
> I started playing with Linux in 1999 after I found it on a double<br>
> sided DVD on a magazine cover mount. (I still have the DVD)<br>
> That was Read Hat 6.1. I followed Ret Hat becoming more<br>
> and more unhappy with it until in April 2002 we got broadband.<br>
> A whole 512k bit/sec download. :)<br>
><br>
> I downloaded Red Hat 9 but installed Gentoo instead. I've<br>
> stuck with Gentoo everywhere ever since.<br>
><br>
> Regards,<br>
><br>
> Roy Bamford.<br>
><br>
> <br>
<br>
-- <br>
St Andrews Linux User Group<br>
<a href="mailto:standrews@mailman.lug.org.uk" target="_blank">standrews@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br>
<a href="http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/standrews" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/standrews</a></blockquote></div>