Re: Reboot:Relevance

Hi,

    I'm in favor to continue CLUG. My interests would be in the personal 
and maker topics. I have used Fedora in the past as my personal computer 
and plan on tinkering with my Raspberry Pi.

    Darcy

On 2017-01-12 12:40, frank wrote:
> I personally belong mostly to the enduser site now. I was a developer
> on a HP Superdome but that's a while ago. And I am interested on what
> is going on at the server side, just to get more depth inside of what
> is everybody talking (emailing) about, e.g. docker etc. Currently I am
> using Linux Mint on my old laptop and other flavours in VM's on my
> Win10 machine. My Raspberry Pi3 is the newest toy for me and more
> capable of doing things than my old laptop (32bit). That way I am
> interested in all 3 directions. That would give us a lot of topics for
> meetings. Perhaps we can do one of each direction per month? (1. month
> = personal, 2. month = enterprise, 3. month = maker ?) - just an idea.
> 
> 
> On 2017-01-12 11:29 AM, Neil Mayhew wrote:
> 
>> I think the issue here is that we’re looking at several distinct
>> categories of people who might be interested in a LUG, and it’s
>> hard to be relevant to all of them.
>> 
>> In particular, I think there’s a difference between those who use
>> Linux professionally as a major part of their day job, and those who
>> use it at home on their own computers or in a side business. Those
>> using it professionally are interested in servers, cloud
>> deployments, containers and the like, but that’s typically not
>> relevant to those using it primarily on their own computers. Those
>> people are interested in GUIs, gaming, office suites and the like.
>> 
>> For the professional people, I’m not sure that a LUG is the best
>> option. These days, Linux is so much a part of the corporate
>> landscape that in many cases people just take it for granted. I read
>> that, even in Microsoft’s Azure cloud hosting service, over 1/3 of
>> the servers are running Linux, and for other providers the
>> proportion is probably much higher. I think that people managing
>> fleets of Linux servers are probably more interested in groups for
>> specific technologies, such as Docker or Hadoop, than they are for
>> Linux itself. Looking through the Tech category for Calgary [3] on
>> Meetup.com shows a lot of technology-specific groups, although
>> nothing specifically for Linux. Linux doesn’t seem to be a
>> ‘technology’ any more, it’s just a part of the tech landscape.
>> 
>> 
>> These professional people, however, most likely don’t run Linux on
>> their computers at home, or on their corporate-issue laptops. (These
>> days, they’re most likely to be running Mac, I hear.) They see
>> Linux as simply a means to an end in the datacentre.
>> 
>> There’s a third, and growing, category I believe: the maker
>> community. These are people experimenting with embedded devices like
>> Raspberry Pi and Arduino, and developing the next generation of
>> personal and industrial tech in their garage, just as was done for
>> the first personal/gaming computers. I’m amazed by how quickly
>> this community has embraced Linux as a part of what they do, but I
>> think it’s mainly because Linux is such an enabler for these
>> commoditized embedded processors. However, I get the impression that
>> only a small proportion of these people are also using Linux on
>> their personal computers.
>> 
>> Personally, I span all three categories. I’m a freelance software
>> developer by day, writing exclusively for Linux, and deploying my
>> work on multiple servers in the cloud that I then administer.
>> However, I also run Linux on all my personal computers, both
>> desktops and laptops. In addition, I own two Raspberry Pis, and I
>> run OpenWRT on my router. So I would find almost any Linux-related
>> talk interesting, and I could give talks on quite a range of
>> subjects.
>> 
>> However, I’m not sure how many other people are in multiple
>> categories. If so, should we be focusing on just one or two
>> categories? Let’s call the ones I’ve identified
>> ‘enterprise’, ‘personal’ and ‘maker’. Do we have takers
>> for all three? Are there any other categories we should be
>> considering?
>> ​
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