[Glastonbury] an Idea ends I guess

[glastonbury@mailman.lug.org.uk]

Still a great idea. I think its something that needs a bit more time & 
discusion (hence the purpose of the group, etc) and that something could emerge 
which is an 'organic' development of the idea - Based on what emerges and how 
the LINUX group develops - so personally i'd give the idea more time. tend to 
agree with Sean that not everyone could or would be involved 'full time' in the 
project, which perhaps represents some of its immediate limitations and would 
have to be considered as group membersa got to know one another more and 
knowledge / skillsets were made aware - we,ve only met twice and had online 
discussions. So there isn't ground to instantly dismiss LUGOG because response 
has been 'slow'. The group is really important - it takes away the sense of 
isolation which can exist sometimes in research.

I doubt if i'll ever comprehend or be skilled enough to see LINUX from a 
programming / systems analysis point of view, to be able to apply this 
commercially - my brain doesn't work like that - but people like Martin and 
others do understand such things and are needed. Personally, I like the idea of 
LINUX as a force in itself, but the reality ashas been pointed out in previous 
email is that Wndows is a primary system used, so I am interested in the 
compatibility between systems - perhaps this has to be expolored a bit - 
combining the two at times in networks. Or maybe i'm too naive about all this, 
and am talking out of somewhere i shouldn't... As long as i get the basic ideas 
behind it... Hence the value of the group & meeting. Shame it was cancelled 
yesterday - looking forward to finding out more about Apache, PHP, etc.

What about meeting at someone's home ?

You never know one day 'THE LINUX INN' could open, with cyberspace, access, 
virtual skittles, and abundant discussion - dream on...

Duncan
(Excuse the grammar)



Quoting Mike Keogh <mike@nalanda.worldonline.co.uk>:

> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for your responses to the paper.  It was to test the water 
> really.  For this sort of project there has to be a great deal of 
> enthusiasm and constructive energy - vision really, not to put too fine a 
> point on it.  And also a degree of harmony, open agendas etc.  For my part 
> I really belive in the ideas in the paper, have done research on it, spoken 
> and schmoozed to a few people.  But this would be a project in which there 
> needed to e a team, and one in which their creative emergencies were 
> directed to wards creating something.  Forgive me, I can't see that 
> emerging at the moment.  I may not know much about the details of Linux, 
> but the point is, I don't NEED to, to be able to appreciate it, and to be 
> able to build something with it.  I have just spent some time in the 
> states, the atmosphere there is really enmeshing, for them the glass really 
> is half full
> 
> Glastonbury for so long, and I have been here for some time, is full of 
> people who love to criticise, talk things down, moan, - the glass is not 
> just half empty, its leaking!!!!! - and there is a kind of thrill they get 
> from talking in this way.  Perhaps on the more positive, it may be just 
> talk about aspirations - but they never seem to realise these!   There is 
> nothing wrong in dreaming, but what you have to do is make that dream, that 
> vision, a reality, and that takes effort and commitment.  If you want the 
> Glastonbury Lugog to remain a monthly talking shop, with people simply 
> using it to raise slightly nerdy comments about different configurations of 
> systems, and what is a better version of a piece of software, or how you 
> pronounce the word Linux, (p-lease!) so be it.  All that stuff is useful 
> (apart from the drivel about pronunciation) ...but somehow Linux should be 
> more than that, and I kind of feel that we owe it both to the worldwide 
> Linux community and to the town to create something.  Well, at least I 
> tested the waters before I put too much energy into it.  I have a lot to 
> give.  Its a shame... I really think it could have worked.
> 
> Mike
> 




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