Phillip Rhodes wrote:
FWIW, I personally would like to see a trilug-ot list created. Mainly because TriLUG is more than just a Linux User's Group... it's a community really, with a social aspect, and it seems that members of that community might occasionally want to have email discussions that are completely unrelated to Linux / computers / Free Software / etc. A list that has (mostly) the same membership as TriLUG but where nothing is OT would, IMHO, be a valuable thing.
<soapbox> With appropriate credit to Jason (apparently).. I like this idea as well. Take a look at our IRC logs. Discussion often wanders around non-Linux-centric topics. I can recall conversations in which I've been involved that dealt with music and model railroading. Certainly such offtopic conversations are questionably appropriate for the main TriLUG list, but I think it's just as certain that we have those interests, and enjoy discussing them with a group of people we already know. Basically, we get to share more than one interest. How cool is it to talk to people that love trains? Or music? Or Linux? But how much cooler is it to talk to people that love trains AND music AND Linux? AND know of, have played with, have possibly invented, or are at least curious about ways of tying these interests together? For example, recent discussions about Linux-based music editing / tracking software. Discussions about Linux-based ideas for controlling model railroad layouts. While those examples are, in my opinion, fully on-topic for the TriLUG list, I think it would be splendid for the TriLUG community to have means in place for the same set of folks to talk about just music, or just model trains, or just whatever, with this great bunch of smart people. TriLUG has the distinction of being a remarkably elite, and still remarkably well-rounded and mostly friendly (wink wink nudge nudge) group of people. In my humble opinion, I'd much rather discuss my other interests with people that have satisfied the social selection process that creates long-standing TriLUG members. </soapbox> My apologies for being somewhat long-winded and a little meandering. Cheers, ~Brian -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
