[StALUG] Happy Wednesday

[Stuart McCulloch Anderson]

I'm glad there's still people here! David is good to hear from you again, I 
really was away for far too long

I think the most important part of any LUG is community. If we can build a 
foundation we can build on top of it.

Let me start with a little background. I've been a Linux desktop user since 
1997 when I installed my first Red Hat box and stuck with Linux right up 
till Windows 10 when I switched back (honesty can't remember why, but it 
was probably Steams fault). I've been running Linux servers for almost as 
long and live playing with new things.

I decided to come back the Linux desktop with Ubuntu 20.04 - I'd only 
planned to do a duel boot, but might have wiped my Windows boot loder so 
until I can be bothered to fix it I'm all in again.

When I went to Dundee I got involved with the Dundee LUG and eventuality 
was elected chair of its successor and ran the LUG for five or so years 
till I moved back to Fife.

In the current world I wouldn't suggest planning a meeting... But it wound 
be nice to have a LUG that meets in person.

How about a quick straw pole?

How wound you like to build a community? I'm not sure mailing list still 
have the same reach they used to, but there's are options now

* mailing lists
* irc (assuming people still use it?)
* discord
* matrix.org - this one's new to me but so far I'm actually loving it 
(anything I can self host usually wins my vote)

Stuart

On 24 June 2020 14:52:14 Tai Kedzierski via StAndrews 
<standrews at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
> I'd happily cast a vote for getting it back up and running again, I could 
> always do with a reason to dart back to St A for something worthwhile :-)
>
> What kind of activities were you thinking the LUG could do?
>
>
>
> On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 at 13:24, Brian Duncan via StAndrews 
> <standrews at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
> not used very often.
> I'm happy to continue. I run a few servers with Centos and occassionally 
> looking for advice and happy to offer advice
> especially when one gets hacked :o(
> cheers brian
> On 24/06/2020 12:44, Stuart McCulloch Anderson via StAndrews wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>>
>> I just wanted to jump in here and say hello. I started this LUG back in 
>> 2002 but stopped being active when I moved to Dundee for uni where I helped 
>> run the local LUG for a while, till the focus moved more to a HackerSpace.
>>
>>
>> Now I'm back on home turf I was looking for some old comforts, and I'm 
>> missing my LUG. Is this LUG still active? And if not, is there any interest 
>> in creating an active group again?
>>
>>
>> Stuart
>
> --
> St Andrews Linux User Group
> standrews at mailman.lug.org.uk
> http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/standrews
> --
> St Andrews Linux User Group
> standrews at mailman.lug.org.uk
> http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/standrews

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/standrews/attachments/20200625/0a68f981/attachment.html>