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

[SilverBear]

Hi, all.

As an extremely peripheral member living a bit south of Fredonia, I don't want to imply that my own concerns are going to necessarily mesh with most other NFLUG members' concerns.  I've got zero forml computer sci education, and just pick up & share knowledge on the fly, as needs must.  But, for the group,  as food for thought:
1] Thanks Mark! Excellent post to the list that got this ball rolling.
2] Thanks Brian! You summed up so much of what I was already thinking, I can keep this post brief.
3] Principle: United is good. Let us join forces into one org. So long as we keep in mind:
4] Principle: We are only as strong as our weakest link.  
OK, that's overstating it. But how about: "Newbs are our future" --can we agree that the existence of an Enterprise-oriented set of WNYLUG members doesn't mean that we don't have meetings that are 100% of the time 500 meters over the heads of  "Desktop Linux dual-boot with my safety-blanket XP" kind of members?  I don't see a problem, after reading what Brian had to say. Since I'm mostly involved in helping newbs, that's got meaning for me.
5] Kewl & easy-to-access meeting site! I've never been there, but I did the map thing, and I like it. THE AIRPORT DISTRICT! 
6] Back to the Enterprise thing. . .  This makes Linux relevant _to the economy,_ not just to "hobby users."  Why segregate that into a separate LUG, when it can be _the professional wing_ of the whole Linux-using community?  I see it as a spectrum of interests and competencies that can only be cumulative . . . is "synergy" too much of a management buzz-word? IMHO: it will all work together, if the intention is there.

I have to say, I am very impressed by the energy, the ideas, and the new-found commitment this regional LUG fusion will bring.

John Boice
AKA "SilverBear
MEPIScommunity.org -- project manager
SBLinux.org -- webmaster
Mepis Linux User's Manual Project html/css designer
Mepis Torrent Team project co-ordinator
mod @ mepislovers.org, LinuxTracker.org

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bpowell01 at gmail.com
> Sent: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:15:55 -0500
> To: nflug at nflug.org
> Subject: Re: [nflug] Meetings - A Brief History of NFLUG and its Future
> Let me take a moment to thank Mark for his compliments and enthusiasm
> as well as suggesting the individual groups merge.
> 
> I would like to clarify my goals and hopefully the group as a whole.
> 
> As mentioned above by a few different people the idea of an
> "Enterprise" group isn't to segregate individual members into 2
> different classes or to create a type of "Elitest" club image. It is
> only to create a sub-meeting (which ideally would meet on a seperate
> week and day) where the focus is on Linux and "Enterprise" usage.
> 
> The whole intent of creating this secondary meeting would be to cater
> the topics for more advanced Linux usage (IE Clustering, Puppet,
> SELinux, etc). This by no means is saying that any and everyone can
> not attend if the topic is of interest to them, it is only saying that
> the presentations / topics is going to assume the attendees are
> "comfortable" with Linux and may skip over basic things that are
> assumed an attendee should already know.
> 
> The whole idea is to have a LUG that covers all user levels from new
> users to advanced. By creating a secondary meeting that possibly meets
> on a different day, this would allow members to choose which meeting
> to attend based on the presentation topics, and if they wish, can
> attend both. It would still be WNYLUG regardless,  just meeting
> possibly twice a month  instead of once with different targeted
> topics.
> 
> Of course this is simply my thoughts. The group as a whole, ultimately
> will discuss and vote on how to approach this topic and what is best.
> This will be added as a meeting agenda item to be discussed at the
> January 14th 2009 meeting.
> 
> --
> Regards,
> 
> BrianPowell
> http://fedoraproject.org
> http://wnylug.org
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