On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 03:54:08PM +0800, Federico Sevilla III wrote: > But don't developers develop GUI, too?
Yeah I guess, I just haven't been exposed to it. I quit programming GUI's during college. > Believe me, GUI-bound programmers are PLENTIFUL! And I'm not just talking > about STI or AMA. I'm talking about the Universty of the Philippines! I > can't say anything about the Ateneo, I'm not Atenean. But my point is that > a lot of CS (and not just IT/MIS) majors, while developers and > programmers, think Microsofty (complete with clangers and FUD). And as a > LUG I think we can (should?) do something. I think the problem is more fundamental - why are people programming GUI's and not servers? As long as people are skewed towards working on GUI's and desktop apps they would naturally favor Windows because that's where the users are! Now, if they had to do real problem-solving, that's where the programmer- friendliness of Linux will shine. > Talking about which I'd like to informally announce the establishment of > the ILUG, or the Isko't Iska Linux Users' Group. We already have a > chatroom up, #ILUG, in the UP College of Medicine's IRC server, as well as > a mailing list hosted in Banwa <http://banwa.upm.edu.ph/>. While advocacy > work of the LUG will focus on UP Manila for starters (since this is where > I'm from), the LUG is not campus-centric and is open to all Linux folk who > study, work, or teach in the University. Muchos gracias to guru Eric > Pareja for working on both the chatroom and the mailing list. :) Cool. So maybe we could get going on the Pinoy 'Sourceforge' with real projects. Hehe. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
