Re: TUG shutting down...
Eric Lehti via MIDRANGE-L <[email protected]>
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I appreciate everyone’s comments to the TUG thread. Likewise, User group Computer Professionals Unlimited Association of Kansas City (abandoned website cpukc.org <http://cpukc.org/>) ceased operation about 24 years ago in 2002. It was vibrant for about 30 years with frequent in-person events and workshops, but user interest dwindled in its final years. Eric Lehti I agree with Steve M list of several reasons why local user groups have been shutting down: <Steve M> I see several reasons why LUGS are going away: - Less developers in a given area - Meetings had presentations - now mostly done on-line (presenters don't travel to a LUG) - Overall availability of current content on-line - Cost overhead vs benefit (based upon the other reasons) - Covid taught everyone that you can pretty much do anything virtual/web-based meetings - Developers are getting older - older ones grew up meeting in person - younger ones were raised in the virtual world - Companies are cracking down on expenses - LUG memberships become individual and not sponsored -- This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: https://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l or email: [email protected] Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at https://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. Please contact [email protected] for any subscription related questions.