On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 22:56, Kevin Waterson wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Ken Foskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This is a sad day for SLUG, IMHO. > Not in mine. > > > This is the time that SLUG should regroup and refocus. Take an > > introspective look and work out what SLUG is here for. > > I used to travel 400km to slug meetings to enjoy a geeky type of > with friendly faces. It was simple, we had our questions and answers, > we had speaker on something relevant to Linux, eg: new kernel direction > or something with a speaker working on the project. Sometimes we > would have newbies bring their computer along and get help setting it up. > When we got _really_ motivated we would have an install fest to attract > new people to linux. That all stopped, and the familiar faces I had dinner > with all drifted away, so I stopped attending. >
I'm one of those country people too (respective to Sydney). I have never been to a slug meeting because of work and family commitments, but always enjoy keeping up with the slug-list. I too think a programming orientated list would be a welcome extra. I enjoy seeing the number of respected linux community members located or associated with Australia. Maybe SLUG based projects pushing toward getting linux onto business desktops in AU would'nt go astray, but then again may not be entierly apporiate as a SLUG project. > I totally agree, this is a time for SLUG to regroup and refocus. > > Kind regards > Kevin > > > -- > ______ > (_____ \ > _____) ) ____ ____ ____ ____ > | ____/ / _ ) / _ | / ___) / _ ) > | | ( (/ / ( ( | |( (___ ( (/ / > |_| \____) \_||_| \____) \____) > Kevin Waterson > Port Macquarie, Australia ps. Kevin, Port is a nice place. You dont know of any work available there? Karl Bowden Forster. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
