And therein lies the rub..
Zane Gilmore wrote:
One particularly popular activity is genealogy.
I don't know what is available for Linux though.
Observation: more NZers know 'history' through genealogy than by any
other means.
If we cannot recount our BSD/GNU/LNX/OSS heritage, integral to what we
offer in ICT, what makes us think we have anything useful to say to this
*larger* social sector at all?
The basic contradiction we must resolve, on behalf of the University
Linux Users, is that whereas high level skills are popularly displayed
at CLUG - necessarily, and to satisfy Volker and every iptables ninja -
a low level focus will only get in the way of this. Teamwork is
required, to get specialised beginner material up more consistently,
probably elsewhere.
I know this is a challenge to the CLUG old guard, who like to believe
one size can fit all in a club like ours. But there's no growth, nor any
theoretical basis supporting that assumption.
If anything, useful time gets frittered away at the scarce CLUG
meetings, from trying to serve two functions at once (canning Volker's
talk this month, sadly). We can always improve on what we are doing.
hth/.02c
Rik
