[StALUG] Happy Wednesday

[Tai Kedzierski]

So, I have a Discord account, and a Matrix account.

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!

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....

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.

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.....?

Tai

[1]: https://twitter.com/ScotlandOSUM/status/1275085374981881857

On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 at 20:20, Stuart McCulloch Anderson via StAndrews <
standrews at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

> So that's two against Discord.
>
> Matrix is a decentralized communication protocol which supports
> end-to-end encryption. You can create a free account at matrix.org (or
> host the server your self) and still connect to any other public matrix
> room and chat with users across servers. The clients are also much nicer
> than any IRC ones I've found -- Sorry I've only been playing with it for
> a few days now but its really grabbed me
>
> However, mailing list are good but I still think a more instant chat is
> good where people can pop in and out of and talk about stuff that's too
> off topic to be on the mailing list so my preference is mailing list and
> Matrix, but I'm playing with installing a Matrix <-> IRC bridge so if
> the majority favor IRC I'll go with it.
>
> If we do go for IRC can I suggest #stalug on Freenode?
>
> I still remember finding my first Red Hat in a PC World in Glasgow. I
> think it was still on floppy disc! I also remember trying Mandrake at
> some point but didn't stick at that one long. I did user Gentoo for a
> while though but eventually got tired of compiling everything needed to
> install it and went on to Fedora, but I've now been using Ubuntu 6.
>
> Stuart
>
> On 25/06/2020 17:32, Roy Bamford via StAndrews wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > mailing lists and irc work for me.
> >
> > discord ... not a chance. I read their terms of service.
> >
> > matrix.org?
> > I've not tried that.
> >
> > I started playing with Linux in 1999 after I found it on a double
> > sided DVD on a magazine cover mount. (I still have the DVD)
> > That was Read Hat 6.1. I followed Ret Hat becoming more
> > and more unhappy with it until in April 2002 we got broadband.
> > A whole 512k bit/sec download. :)
> >
> > I downloaded Red Hat 9 but installed Gentoo instead. I've
> > stuck with Gentoo everywhere ever since.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Roy Bamford.
> >
> >
>
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