Thank you for standing up to host a meeting, otherwise we aren't much more than a drinking club with a mailing list. Ultimately, if you present, you drive the agenda.
On 09/15/2010 05:52 PM, Rubin Bennett wrote: > I share the opinion that we should not lose focus - there are plenty of > other groups out there. Are there? The other groups I'm aware of are focused on specific languages (.net, PHP). Where does open tech culture gather outside of VAGUE? Is Vermont big enough to support several vibrant groups? Personally, I've really enjoyed the presentations like Open Street Map and Arduino which were more 'tech enthusiast' than 'Unix enthusiast'. Anyway, I hear a lot of support for focusing on Unix. Does that mean a meeting on compiling the Linux kernel? Bash scripting? Can we string 6 or 8 monthly meetings together like that? The challenge I see here is how do we go about assigning the topics to presenters. This kind of stuff can be so subconscious to us that it never occurs to someone to actually do a presentation on the subject, even though it is just the kind of thing you might expect to find at a group of Unix users meeting. I'm not being sarcastic. The Upstate New York Unix Users Group worked kind of like that. I think it was able to work that way because Bill Davidsen pushed the agenda and brought the topics. I must have caught the very end of that group because I just searched for UNYUUG, and I can't seem to find it on the web anymore. The old Unix guys faded away. This is one problem with the explicit Unix focus; notices for "Unix meetings" are meaningless to new blood that would otherwise be interested in the topics under our umbrella. -- Anthony Carrico
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