On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 09:45 -0500, Martin, Patrick wrote: > I think the important question here is: > > Does JaxLUG cater to hobbyist or professionals? > > I'd say both, and let the active participants drive this behavior. As > the ratio of active participants change, so will the culture and slant > of the group.
That is a good summation and way to answer the question. > Back when I was president of JaxLUG, I did try to push the group in a > direction that serviced the professional community and community at > large a bit more than it had in the past. Linux was struggling to be > adopted in larger Enterprises, and I was trying to get the larger > Enterprises more involved. I also wanted these Enterprises to give > back to JaxLUG in the form of deprecated machines but this fell short. I think most of our topics still tend to be more on the enterprise side of things. But thats not a result of trying to steer the LUG in any one direction or another. > However, from my perspective, there is very little need to push Linux > to the Enterprise anymore. It's already won the battle. Yes, and times have changed rather considerably. Its some what old news now, though things are still being innovated, and new technologies coming out daily. > Most everyone loves it, and it's a de-facto standard within my > company anyhow. Solaris has a degree of uncertainty around it now that > SUN has been acquired by Oracle. It should be interesting with both Solaris and Ubreakable Linux. I know Linux was very controversial within Sun back when it had acquired Cobalt. The Solaris developers, surely kernel ones were all about how Solaris was vastly superior. Which in some ways likely rightfully is, but Linux has come along way since then just the same. Will be interesting to see how both pan out within Oracle. Much less future of Sparc platform, etc. > Personally, I prefer the hobbyist/hacker culture. I love the folks > involved. Guys like Art Wildman, the long absent Scott Carter and > Kevin Castle. I'm glad to see guys like Gene and Rob still active. I > must admit, I miss the deep insight and passion of the much > controversial Brian Smith (aka the BS). > > I get my fill of the suits by day, so when I make it to a meeting > nowdays it's to hang out with the hackers and I am long overdue. When all the types mix and interact thats when the best things can happen, IMHO. > I actually prefer the LUSH meeting to the LUG. Mix beer and passion > and things get even more interesting. We have sorta mixed both together by combining food into the meeting. Also helps with starving people attending after work before dinner. Just the same we can look to have LUSH gatherings on their own. Instead of having more than one meeting a month, can do the meeting on one night and lush on another. Just the same if there is enough interest, we can have multiple tracks to our meetings. Either multiple meetings at the same time, one geared toward hobbyists and others, and the other meeting for professionals and the like. It all depends on interest and involvement from the JaxLUG members :) -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
