[StALUG] Happy Wednesday

Sat Jun 27 07:53:48 UTC 2020

TLDR;

IRC channel  - #stalug on Freenode.net
Matrix Room  - #stalug:nx15.uk
Mastodon Acc - @stalug at mastodon.scot 

Full Reply;

I definitely think we should be thinking about in person meet-ups and
like the idea of mixing talks with workshops. Obviously that would have
to wait for further lock-down easements.

I think while we're waiting on things to ease up we could focus on our
digital presence and increase. I'm conscious if anyone in the area is
looking for a group they start online anyway.

My day job is nothing to do with computers which I find gives me the
outsiders prospective. Keeping things online FOSS isn't always
possible, sadly, to some point you need to go where the eyeballs are.
That said, I still think we should stick to FOSS where ever possible.

To that end the, IRC channel is setup at #stalug on Freenode, but I've
also setup a Matrix bridge. So if you don't want to use IRC you can
join the room from at #stalug:nx15.uk - which is what I do since I
can't find a decent mobile IRC client.

Micro blogging is also a good way to increase engagement and I thought
Mastodon instead of Twitter (for obvious reasons) - @
stalug at mastodon.scot

===
Stuart McCulloch Anderson
Web: https://nxfifteen.me.uk
Matrix: @nxad:nx15.uk
Mastodon: @nxad at nx15.rocks

On Sat, 2020-06-27 at 04:09 +0100, Tai Kedzierski via StAndrews wrote:
> > 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!
> 
> 
> ===
> Tai Kedzierski
> Linux Operations and Deployments Engineer
> 
> 
> I use LibreOffice , a free, Freedom-respecting replacement for MS
> Office
> 
> Open Source Free Software is a matter of liberty, not price.
> https://www.fsf.org/about/what-is-free-software
> 
> 
> 
> 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.
> > > >
> > > >  
> > > 