Re: [GTALUG] Any Debian User Groups in the GTA?

2018-09-06 Thread Bill Thanis via talk
There was a group of people that were interested in debian that came to TLUG many years ago. I know that they met informally as well, but to my knowledge the group fizzled out as people became busy. I can't remember anyone who attended the informally meeting though. Anyone admit to being part of

Re: [GTALUG] Any Debian User Groups in the GTA?

2018-09-06 Thread Lennart Sorensen via talk
On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 03:36:27PM -0400, Sergio Durigan Junior via talk wrote: > I don't think I understand your reply. Perhaps you're not familiar with > concepts like sprints, or BSPs (Bug Squashing Parties). I never claimed > that I was looking to replace the Debian mailing lists. My

Re: [GTALUG] Any Debian User Groups in the GTA?

2018-09-05 Thread znoteer--- via talk
> Le 5 septembre 2018 à 14:39, o1bigtenor via talk a écrit : [snip] > > maybe - - - if one 'knows' what's causing the problems. When not > - - - oh well, its really difficult! > Hi Dee, I'd suggest you subscribe to debian-u...@lists.debian.org. That's a very high volume list for general

Re: [GTALUG] Any Debian User Groups in the GTA?

2018-09-05 Thread o1bigtenor via talk
On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 11:31 AM, Alex Volkov via talk wrote: > I don't think just pointing to a very long page with mailing list with no > other explanation is very helpful. > > Olbigtenor, if you have a problem with particular package, you can go to > https://www.debian.org/Bugs/ look for that

Re: [GTALUG] Any Debian User Groups in the GTA?

2018-09-05 Thread Lennart Sorensen via talk
On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 12:31:24PM -0400, Alex Volkov via talk wrote: > I don't think just pointing to a very long page with mailing list with no > other explanation is very helpful. > > Olbigtenor, if you have a problem with particular package, you can go to > https://www.debian.org/Bugs/ look

Re: [GTALUG] Any Debian User Groups in the GTA?

2018-09-05 Thread Lennart Sorensen via talk
On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 11:02:08AM -0500, o1bigtenor wrote: > Being one is is in what would seem to be a severe backwater how and/or > where can one access these 'Debian mailing lists'. I would likely not have > code to contribute but have at times run into some very puzzling problems > where I

Re: [GTALUG] Any Debian User Groups in the GTA?

2018-09-05 Thread Alex Volkov via talk
I don't think just pointing to a very long page with mailing list with no other explanation is very helpful. Olbigtenor, if you have a problem with particular package, you can go to https://www.debian.org/Bugs/ look for that package you're having the problem with and see a discussion related

Re: [GTALUG] Any Debian User Groups in the GTA?

2018-09-05 Thread o1bigtenor via talk
On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 9:13 AM, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: > On Tue, Sep 04, 2018 at 04:44:07PM -0400, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote: >> Funny, it's one of the first things I missed. But I guess it depends on >> how you interact with the GTALUG, among other things. >> >> Actually, I'd like

Re: [GTALUG] Any Debian User Groups in the GTA?

2018-09-05 Thread Lennart Sorensen via talk
On Tue, Sep 04, 2018 at 04:44:07PM -0400, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote: > Funny, it's one of the first things I missed. But I guess it depends on > how you interact with the GTALUG, among other things. > > Actually, I'd like to make a correction. I said "User Group", but > that's not what I

Re: [GTALUG] Any Debian User Groups in the GTA?

2018-09-04 Thread Sergio Durigan Junior via talk
On Tuesday, September 04 2018, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 07:47:41PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: >> Is there a reason to separate Linux users into distros? I'm pretty >> sure we share most thing and can learn from each other. >> >> In other words,

Re: [GTALUG] Any Debian User Groups in the GTA?

2018-09-04 Thread Lennart Sorensen via talk
On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 07:47:41PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > Is there a reason to separate Linux users into distros? I'm pretty > sure we share most thing and can learn from each other. > > In other words, consider GTALUG a debian users group. And a Fedora, > Ubuntu, Centos,

Re: [GTALUG] Any Debian User Groups in the GTA?

2018-08-19 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 8:40 AM David Collier-Brown via talk < talk@gtalug.org> wrote: > We have a state of Postgres talk every year or so, I would absolutely > love a state of Debian talk, they're the root of a whole group of > interesting distros. > > And I think a state of RedHat every hundred

Re: [GTALUG] Any Debian User Groups in the GTA?

2018-08-18 Thread David Collier-Brown via talk
We have a state of Postgres talk every year or so, I would absolutely love a state of Debian talk, they're the root of a whole group of interesting distros. And I think a state of RedHat every hundred years or so, with each new release (;-)) --dave [Running  Fedora, Centos and Ubuntu these

Re: [GTALUG] Any Debian User Groups in the GTA?

2018-08-18 Thread o1bigtenor via talk
On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 6:47 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > | From: Sergio Durigan Junior via talk > > | Do we have any Debian User Groups in the GTA? > > Is there a reason to separate Linux users into distros? I'm pretty > sure we share most thing and can learn from each other. > >

Re: [GTALUG] Any Debian User Groups in the GTA?

2018-08-17 Thread Val Kulkov via talk
On Fri, 17 Aug 2018 at 19:48, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > In other words, consider GTALUG a debian users group. And a Fedora, > Ubuntu, Centos, Slackware, Arch, ... group. Even Android. > > I'm happy enough to include BSD too. > +1. Also, OpenWRT. --- Talk Mailing List

Re: [GTALUG] Any Debian User Groups in the GTA?

2018-08-17 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
| From: Sergio Durigan Junior via talk | Do we have any Debian User Groups in the GTA? Is there a reason to separate Linux users into distros? I'm pretty sure we share most thing and can learn from each other. In other words, consider GTALUG a debian users group. And a Fedora, Ubuntu,

Re: [GTALUG] Any Debian User Groups in the GTA?

2018-08-17 Thread Alex Volkov via talk
I know Mozilla office use to host Ubuntu release parties but I haven't hear anything about debian here. I'm a debian user by the way, if we need *mass* to organize something. Alex. On 2018-08-17 05:32 PM, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 3:11 PM, Sergio Durigan Junior via

Re: [GTALUG] Any Debian User Groups in the GTA?

2018-08-17 Thread o1bigtenor via talk
On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 3:11 PM, Sergio Durigan Junior via talk wrote: > Hi there, > > Do we have any Debian User Groups in the GTA? I've been living in > Toronto for the past 4 years and never even heard of one, which is a > bummer. I'd like to do something this weekend to celebrate Debian Day