[StALUG] Happy Wednesday

Sat Jun 27 03:10:11 UTC 2020

> 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.....?

Sorry - I meant, alternate months between the two types of activity!

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On Sat, 27 Jun 2020 at 04:07, Tai Kedzierski <dch.tai at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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