On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Josh Sled <[email protected]> wrote: > Before an October meeting, and as a followup to the late August meeting, > I propose interested parties meet up at 6pm on Wednesday September 22nd > at the Farmhouse Tap and Grill in Burlington to discuss the future of > VAGUE. > > VAGUE's domain is spelled out in its name: unix enthusiasts. > > But does that even make sense in 2010? People hop between computers, > platforms, devices, form-factors and even virtualized environments and > services where the OS is irrelevant. The focus is no longer on > operating systems or fixed hardware platforms, but the interconnection beween
What about thinking of it in terms of "the unix way" -- which focuses on discrete tools, piped together to create complex or new systems? That almost perfectly describes what you discuss above -- and still keeps the "u" in vague. > VAGUE for a long time has been tolerant of this, and has had a broader > view of being inclusive of FOSS, in the spirit of BSD and Linux, no > matter the platform. Hell, we most often meet in a lab full of Macs! ;) > > But, should the group's remit be broader still? Should we actively seek > to expand across more technologies and paradigms, in the interest of > technological progress? > > > I submit that the focus should not be on the "Unix", but on the > *Enthusiasts*. We should expand to encompass those passionate about a > broad swath of technology. However, leaving the scope too broad might, > too, be a problem. So what's the right scope? And then, does the VAGUE > brand continue to make sense? > > > Wednesday, September 22nd. 6pm. Farmhouse Tap and Grill > (http://farmhousetg.com/). > > > Of course, this topic is bigger than one meeting, so the discussion > should start now. What do you want to see out of a local technology > users and implementers group? > > -- > ...jsled > http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo $...@${b} > -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney [email protected] http://weierophinney.net/matthew/
