On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 20:53 -0400, Mike Rathburn wrote: > > No way William! I yell that with a grin. :) I doubt many students > in our universities now even have a clue as to what a "user's group" > is. I venture the response will be "Don’t you mean a meetup, or > friend's list, or followers?"
Well any form of in person gathering short of a flash mob seems to be a thing of the past :) If you can't do it online, why bother... > > Those areas they are quite big in, also have thriving tech industries, and > > this is > > just not that area. At least not yet ;) > > Would not the JaxLUG have some responsibility in that expansion? Yes, and while i would like to believe in miracles. Would take quite allot for the JaxLUG to change the area. But that is why I am involved, and I should be doing more. However not sure I can do it all, even if I had a god complex. I think god created some helpers first. I would have ;) > > > > Following others trends and stuff won't help the JaxLUG. Being creative and > > innovative doing things our own way for others to follow. That is the way to > > get things to change in the area. > > > > Yeah, mailing lists and IRC channels should take care of that. Those are just tools in the chest, which you could say Facebook and Twitter are others. But we aren't using the tools available so having more really doesn't do much. Need things to work on, and ways to use the tools. > Having flashbacks Flashbacks are groovy :) > to the hobbyist versus corporate debate we had here a while back that > I didn't partake in. Cool or not cool, it is a necessity and > infiltrated in our everyday lives (think Facebook is running in > Winblows?). Its not a necessity to all and never infiltrated my life and many others. I am not surprised when I come across others that do not participate in the social networking world. Yes I missed out I never created a MySpace account. Maybe in a few years same could be said about Facebook. But one can always join if these things remain and are so crucial to survival and existence :) -- 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]
