[nflug] Meetings - A Brief History of NFLUG and its Future

[Brad Bartram]

I am 100% in favor of an "enterprise" focused group in the Buffalo / WNY
region.  I also don't believe anyone should be excluded from such a group
based solely on knowledge, experience, or professional position.

The linux groups in this area have largely been focused on Linux as a
desktop replacement OS and it's largely been that way since I remember going
to my first meeting way back when in the Statler.  This isn't necessarily a
bad thing as there needs to be a place where the casual user can go to learn
and for mutual assistance.  However, there is a definite need for the same
type of sharing of information and networking opportunities among people who
use linux in a server environment, software development environment, or even
in other ways.

I would personally love to be involved in sharing information about some of
the work I'm currently and have been doing, but it tends not to be the kind
of thing geared towards the casual user.  There tends to be a great group of
highly talented people in this area - we just need to get some of them
together once in a while and compare notes.

Brad

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 9:43 AM, <tyler.poland at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm not sure that any group of users should be excluded by declaring it to
> be an "Enterprise" level group. While that could be the focus I certainly
> wouldn't want to discourage new members or new users from coming out and
> learning.
>
> Tyler
>
>
>
> On Nov 25, 2008 9:13am, "Carver, Blake" <Blake.Carver at nypa.gov> wrote:
> >
> > I agree with Mark, though I'm not sure what advantage
> > there would be to having an enterprise level, I do like the idea of just
> one
> > group, and one list, WNYLUG or whatever it's called.
> >
> >
> >
> > -Blake
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > From: nflug-bounces at nflug.org
> > [mailto:nflug-bounces at nflug.org] On Behalf Of Mark Musone
> > Sent:
> > Tuesday, November 25, 2008 9:02 AM
> > To:
> > nflug at nflug.org
> > Subject: Re: [nflug] Meetings - A Brief History of
> > NFLUG and its Future
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I
> > personally like the name WNYLUG. I think it best describes the
> geographical
> > membership better than BPLUG or NFLUG. Upon speaking to Brian, he also
> like the
> > idea of having a more "Enterprise" level usergroup, and is willing to
> lead that
> > one also (it might simply be a sub-group of WNYLUG). So, if it was up to
> me, I
> > would merge NFLUG and BPLUG into WNYLUG and adopt the WNYLUG charter and
> mission
> > statement for the time being. The next WNYLUG meeting is December
> > 10th. At that time, there will be voting for the leadership and
> > acceptance of the mission statement and charter (note, even though Brian
> is
> > founding this and taking on the initial leadership, actual voting for all
>
> > officers will be done). Anybody is welcome to come and not only vote, but
> put
> > themselves up for election.
> >
> >
> >
> > Once
> > this is done, the next item that needs to be cleaned up is the mailing
> lists. I
> > would suggest that the only mailing list that remains be WNYLUG. People
> can
> > either manually sign up for wnylug, and at date certain, the nflug
> mailing list
> > be shut down. I strongly discourage having multiple Linux mailing lists
> be
> > active at one time, It only encourages division of our local
> > community.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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