Re: [Eug-lug] means to and end?

2011-07-25 Thread BB
*Revolution OS* and *The Code* are two examples. These are dated and are nothing that would excite the majority of long-term Linux users. I never had the access to these documentaries, so it's entertaining for me to hear the original players discuss their intent. In contrast to the claw-back

Re: [Eug-lug] means to and end?

2011-07-23 Thread Robert Solovay
Could you give the titles of the documentaries you liked? On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 1:44 PM, BB bilbobag...@gmail.com wrote: www.topdocumentaryfilms.com has a lot of this sort of stuff; some history of Linux documentaries that I found interesting.  I keep seeing a common theme, technologists

Re: [Eug-lug] means to and end?

2011-07-21 Thread BB
Well, too bad that didn't stay up longer. I was going to watch that again. On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 4:14 PM, seymoor nates mikem...@efn.org wrote: With no wish to hijack the thread please lemme post links to a show y'all have prob'ly seen long since but which I found engaging. It's a BBC

Re: [Eug-lug] means to and end?

2011-07-21 Thread seymoor nates
Woah. Will send a query to the fellow who shared this with me and see if he knows how to access this show. It is fairly recent and I still have hopes of our local PBS affiliate picking it up On 7/21/2011 12:49 PM, BB wrote: Well, too bad that didn't stay up longer. I was going to watch that

Re: [Eug-lug] means to and end?

2011-07-21 Thread BB
www.topdocumentaryfilms.com has a lot of this sort of stuff; some history of Linux documentaries that I found interesting. I keep seeing a common theme, technologists want a better world, then the bean counters find a way to extort from the popular implementation of better technology. On Thu,

[Eug-lug] means to and end?

2011-07-20 Thread Ben Barrett
I wish to ask the group: (as in, whomever cares to read, consider, and respond) Do we as a group want to use social networks to further the group itself? It seems to me that we're free to carry on and be unique as members, of course, but that we might want to agree as a group about some of

Re: [Eug-lug] means to and end?

2011-07-20 Thread David Nelson
I am relatively new to the group (also went to ITProForum for the first time last night) so take my opinion with a grain of salt… I had been meaning to come to meetings for quite some time but it's easy for a time and date to get lost in a flurry of email. If there was a Facebook event

Re: [Eug-lug] means to and end?

2011-07-20 Thread Ben Barrett
Oh, that's a good point. Meetup has gotten very popular. Are we okay with popular/populist outlets and tools? It does seem to go against the grain of the spirit of our movement... Ben On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 3:51 PM, David Nelson da...@davidnelson.net wrote: I am relatively new to the

Re: [Eug-lug] means to and end?

2011-07-20 Thread larry price
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Ben Barrett stircrazy...@gmail.com wrote: Oh, that's a good point.  Meetup has gotten very popular.  Are we okay with popular/populist outlets and tools? It does seem to go against the grain of the spirit of our movement... I don't think anyone has a problem

Re: [Eug-lug] means to and end?

2011-07-20 Thread David Nelson
In my opinion any tools that get used should be ones that people access on a regular basis, or where the data can be aggregated to the reader of your choice. For example I see Facebook, Twitter and Google+ every day on my phone and get push notifications of new messages and invitations. I don't

Re: [Eug-lug] means to and end?

2011-07-20 Thread seymoor nates
With no wish to hijack the thread please lemme post links to a show y'all have prob'ly seen long since but which I found engaging. It's a BBC docu- by Adam Curtis called All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace and it posits that we've been colonized by the very machines we built to help

Re: [Eug-lug] means to and end?

2011-07-20 Thread Lorraine Kerwood
: [Eug-lug] means to and end? With no wish to hijack the thread please lemme post links to a show y'all have prob'ly seen long since but which I found engaging. It's a BBC docu- by Adam Curtis called All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace and it posits that we've been colonized by the very

Re: [Eug-lug] means to and end?

2011-07-20 Thread seymoor nates
Kool--makes up for my snotty posts about face... Don't you love the Ayn Rand stuff? All those silicon valley dweebs naming their children after her . . . Just spoke with a young man who bragged that she's his favorite author. Tried not to cringe--but I did turn and stare at him--till I

Re: [Eug-lug] means to and end?

2011-07-20 Thread Hippy Nerd
I think we should use social networking like we've used the web, newsgroups, and conventions and meetings. It would be great if we could tap in to radio or TV, but we havnt had anyone venture into those areas. Its a way to engage the public, inform them, and bring interested people to the lug.

Re: [Eug-lug] means to and end?

2011-07-20 Thread Alan
On Wed, July 20, 2011 3:17 pm, Ben Barrett wrote: I wish to ask the group: (as in, whomever cares to read, consider, and respond) Do we as a group want to use social networks to further the group itself? euglug is an anarcho-syndicalist commune so no approval is needed to do any sort of