On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 02:27:17PM +1000, Philip Greggs wrote:
Extreme examples are codefests in Wollongong in recent times. If you
remember or check the Archives, it was announced only Debian installs will
be done.
1) Installfest, not codefest
2) Ubuntu, not Debian
3) It was only for UoW
On 4/6/06, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
quote who=Philip Greggs
The rumour vines says this: intending members using other distros are
discouraged altogether from becoming members. The President's report was
making this plain and clear - declining membership in recent years.
I
Extreme examples are codefests in Wollongong in recent times.
If you remember or check the Archives, it was announced only Debian
installs
will be done.
Leaving aside the rest of the message can I make a couple of corrections
here please. Firstly it was an installfest not a code fest,
quote who=Philip Greggs
I don't think this is accurate at all. Membership has been declining due
to the change in demographic
Demography as I understand is a basket of things like Age, Sex, Race,
Education, and similar categories. This can't be correlated to decline in
SLUG membership.
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 12:09 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
I think the thing to take out of this discussion is that it takes a lot of
work to build a community, and if you want to get a particular thing out of
your community, you need to contribute and work towards it.
In 2001 (I think) I wanted to
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 05:53:30PM +1000, Craige McWhirter wrote:
Many great ideas, projects and partnerships have spawned from those
meetings. Within a few meetings it had gone from being Debian only talk
topics to more like SLUG-Social - with the name never being changed
because no one could
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 19:04 +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 05:53:30PM +1000, Craige McWhirter wrote:
Many great ideas, projects and partnerships have spawned from those
meetings. Within a few meetings it had gone from being Debian only talk
topics to more like
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 12:55:19PM +1000, Philip Greggs wrote:
SLUG server being offline for a few extended outages due to
hardware issues which thankfully have now been sorted recently
by removing hardware from the equation - ie it's now on a
virtual server.
I check SLUG web site daily.
quote who=Matt Palmer
neutral. It is perceived SLUG is driven by self-interest. There are
Self-interest (enlightened, if possible) is the best driver there is.
Pure selflessness isn't really in vogue any more, and I don't think it
works really well without an external influence to keep
On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 12:55 +1000, Philip Greggs wrote:
What I heard from the rumour vines is that SLUG has become too
Debianized and/or Ubuntoized instead of being Linux Distribution
neutral. It is perceived SLUG is driven by self-interest. There are
many Suse, Gentoo, RH, FC, etc, users than
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