[Liverpool] Re: Liverpool Digest, Vol 121, Issue 1

Tue Feb 26 22:09:09 GMT 2008

hi all!
I am rather (well very actually) new to all this
Linux LUG and all!
I feel there is little out there either formally or informally for the
Linux newcomer :(
I joined this list to find like minded folk not so far up the ladder as to
not be able to see us newbs on the ground lol!
I have been trying (with little interest or support) to get our local
college (Carlett park) to organize a course in Linux (preferably Linux+)
but apparently there is not enough interest (how they would know that
without advertising the course is something of a mystery!!)
so meeting up with people with an interest and a passion for Linux would
be great for someone like me!
just my thoughts and ramblings really!
there is just so much out there for windows..
and so little for Linux.. it is a real shame especially when you consider
the amount of time and energy put in to make Linux what it is!
don't get me wrong..
although I know little about Linux I have quite a bit of experience with
M$ products and have a CCNA A+ Network+ and I have several Linux machines
running here.. there is an awful lot of basic information I am missing :)
and the same I suspect can be said about the majority of new Linux users
that just use X and never get to the command line!
basic info on Linux is presented in a very dry and factual manner and that
does not help the learning process much!
anyways..
enough of my ramblings already :)
am I to assume any meetings will come to my attention here?
thanks for reading this (rather long winded) post :)
I look forwards to meeting some real Linux users sometime soon!
cheers
Garry

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> Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:52:50 +0000
> From: David Watson <david at planetwatson.co.uk>
> Subject: [Liverpool] Bringing the U back to LUG
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> Hello everyone,
>
> I'd like to get our LUG back to a more active state, it's a shame that
> it stagnated which I'm afraid to say was probably my fault.
>
> I did enjoy the social meetings we had, but the other meetings seemed to
> be rather pointless most of the time without a presentation of some
> kind.  So I'd propose to start up social meetings again, and to only
> have other meetings if we have an actual presentation planned.
>
> Of course, this is not a dictatorship, so I'd like to here what others
> have to say.  Don't be afraid to speak up, or indeed disagree with
> me ;).  I'd like to hear what everyone thinks about how things should be
> about meetings, the website or anything else.
>
>
> --
> David Watson - Debian GNU/Linux Developer
> david at planetwatson.co.uk, dwatson at debian.org
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> Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:13:15 +0000
> From: "Omar Baqueiro" <obaqueiro at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Liverpool] Re:Bringing the U back to LUG
> To: "Liverpool Linux User Group" <liverpool at mailman.lug.org.uk>
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> Just some thoughts from a foreigner Linuxer.
>
> I used to be member of a LUG (about 10 ppl, mostly undergrads) back in
> Mexico (before coming to study here) and  we had meetings every two
> weeks. Even if there was no "formal" presentation. People proposed a
> theme (usually a program) and it was discussed during the meeting day.
> As the meeting progressed, other issues started showing.
>
> Of course as you can imagine, due to the "loco"-happy  character of us
> Mexicans, the meetings were *very* lay back and sometimes  (well...
> usually more often than not) very unordered.
>
> Now, I acknowledge that I have not been to any meeting in this LUG
> since I arrived Liverpool (I am guilty... unfortunately the PhD
> consumes really a lot of my time) however when I have seen information
> about the meetings they seem very very formal.
>
> Maybe a specific presentation is not needed to meet together to talk
> about Linux. Instead, for example a *theme* for each day might be more
> appropriate as for example "Open Source CRM" systems, or "CMS" or IDEs
> or graphical designing packages or whatever else as a central theme,
> and then, other news and information could also be discussed.
>
> Well, those are my $.02 MX (which btw are like £0.001).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Omar.
>
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:52 PM, David Watson <david at planetwatson.co.uk>
> wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>>  I'd like to get our LUG back to a more active state, it's a shame that
>>  it stagnated which I'm afraid to say was probably my fault.
>>
>>  I did enjoy the social meetings we had, but the other meetings seemed
>> to
>>  be rather pointless most of the time without a presentation of some
>>  kind.  So I'd propose to start up social meetings again, and to only
>>  have other meetings if we have an actual presentation planned.
>>
>>  Of course, this is not a dictatorship, so I'd like to here what others
>>  have to say.  Don't be afraid to speak up, or indeed disagree with
>>  me ;).  I'd like to hear what everyone thinks about how things should
>> be
>>  about meetings, the website or anything else.
>>
>>
>>  --
>>  David Watson - Debian GNU/Linux Developer
>>  david at planetwatson.co.uk, dwatson at debian.org
>>
>>  Jabber: dwatson at planetwatson.co.uk
>>  Web: http://planetwatson.co.uk/blog
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