[Wolves] LUG State of the Nation Address

[Kris Douglas]

On Mon, 17 Jun 2019, 17:24 Peter Cannon via Wolves, <
wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

> On 17/06/2019 16:33, Adam Sweet via Wolves wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > TL;DR - LUGs are dying, need your help.
>
> I think the biggest problem is knowledge. Back in the day, there wasn't as
> much info on the web as there is nowadays and therefore LUG's served a
> vital service in terms of experience and assistance. I think LUG's probably
> still have a place but possibly on the social side more than anything else.
> I personally have no excuse for not attending meetings other than being A.
> Lazy and B. Lazy. I always remember Jono Bacon saying about 15+ years ago
> "I come to these meetings to socialise and have a few beers not talk
> technical stuff." at the time I thought "Hold the phone here, your the
> lugmaster and yet don't want to talk Linux?" thing is, he may have been
> right, just ahead of his time. LOL
>
> Wolves LUG has never been 'stiffy' about discussing any old subject on the
> mailing list but possibly members feel that a LUG Mailing list is purely
> for Linux related communications? Maybe some posts about drizzled bake
> beans and a lettuce obsession would liven things up?
>
> Here's a question: Does Wolverhampton University even know we exist? Or
> any other place in Wolverhampton for that matter? I joined the LUG because
> I found it on a list in the back of Linux Format do those lists still
> appear in magazines? Maybe we should ping Linux Voice and Linux Format? In
> fact, given we're all talking about the 10th anniversary of OggCamp how
> about those magazines write a piece on how it all started with LugRadio
> Live and Wolves LUG because without us there probably wouldn't have been
> any OggCamp.
>
> Course, Linux isn't sexy anymore, you need to be into RaspberryPi or
> Makerspace these days. LOL
>
> P.S. I actually miss some of the flame wars IMO all that was hurt was
> peoples pride and some people deserve a good shoeing anyway. Bwhahaha
>

You miss the flame wars!? The comedy value there was huge for most of us!

I'll pass the word around work as we're all Linux users, based in Bilston.
Alas I rarely/never have time at the moment to attend meetings at the
moment as I'm working hard at a little heritage railway in Stafford.

Perhaps I ought to make time!

Cheers
Kris

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