On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 8:46 PM, ew <[email protected]> wrote: > I do consider myself a Linux user and a resident living in the Mid > Hudson Valley. If the group prefers catering to the demographic "Open > Source programmers" perhaps the name is inappropriate. ;)
It's important to keep things in prospective. >From what I see only 4 of the last 12 sessions were specifically programming related and they were all introductions to the respective technologies. Their goal was to encourage us all to get involved with those technologies if we found them interesting. The four sessions: The Arduino talk was an introduction to a hobbyist electronics project environment which in itself is focused on beginners. Crack and LLVM was a show-and-tell of a personal project being done by the MHVLUG member who presented it. Android was an introduction to programming for the Android cellphone platform. Creating Browser Extensions was an introduction to ways to extend the functionality of the Chrome and Firefox web browsers. The other 9 of the 12 sessions focused on the non-programming side of tools the person presenting was involved with or used. Many are sysadmin level topics that required no "programming". Not every topic is going to interest everyone. I know I come to the LUG meetings to be exposed to new things. As with life you're not going to necessarily be interested every new thing that comes along. We have a fairly large group with diverse interests. The message that people should take away is that the LUG has moved past just "Linux" and now covers the greater ecosystem around it. There is a large diverse world of open source technologies out there of which Linux is only a small part. Linux helped spark it all. It would be a shame to not embrace it. What can the LUG provide that isn't better served by a generalized computer user group? In my personal opinion any answer to that is going to skew towards the more technical. -- Bruce A. Locke [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Feb 2 - Zimbra Mar 2 - MHVLUG 8th Anniversary - Show and Tell Apr 6 - Introduction to IPv6
