My 2c.
Having been a SLUG troll for many years now (10+?, i think i was maybe
15-16, now im edging dangerously closer to 30), of late i have found
SLUG to be less and less interesting.
I have pondered on it from time to time as I used to really enjoy SLUG.
My thoughts are along two lines...
1. My ability has exceeded the average on slug
2. Slug has become less technical
Because i can only see myself in the first person, i can only
confidently say that point 1 is at least half true (in that i am working
full time on linux now, rather than as a high school hobbiest)
However the truth of the other half and point 2 is extremely subjective.
Its also possible that a point 3. might be that distributions are
successfully building their own communities, which people are involved
in rather than their local linux UG.
Certainly i now prefer the highly technical discussions on the debian
and freebsd lists.
As i said my 2c. Nothing more than some thoughts.
Dean
dave b wrote:
From my perspective, the talks given at atlassian were always good or
interesting. Some of the talks when slug has been at google have been
less interesting.
While there have been a few BOF's which have been great - like the
multimedia one which would be an interesting talk on its own, there
seems to be a reduction in interesting or informative talks. I
remember listening to a talk on video editing which was really
informative from some one who was more of an end user of linux than a
dev. When people get busy / have other things on they are less likely
to attend unless there is good a social side or an interest side.
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