Re: SVLUG meetings, and lack of

I might have only attended one meeting a few years ago but given that I
have more time after work, I would like to be more involved with the group.
Also, I feel like I should buy some of the people on this list a drink as
their comments have been very helpful.

With the mention of Meetup and how does this group fit in, personally, I
think many of the Meetups are deeply focused on DevOps or programming for a
certain language. But I rarely have seen a group for Linux users either in
the scope of desktop users or system administration. I'm not sure the
direction of a user group should aim for getting people interested in using
Linux or developing knowledge in a narrow field of technology.



On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 9:26 AM Sarah Newman <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 1/16/19 11:25 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
> > An enormously generous gentleman named Kevin Dankwardt has for the last
> > few years both lined up technical speakers for monthly SVLUG meetings
> > and supplied an excellent meeting venue, the cafeteria at Cavium, an
> > embedded Linux company in north San Jose -- amusingly, about a block
> > south of the old north San Jose Karl's Jr. community room where SVLUG
> > met for long years through the middle 1990s.
> >
> > Well...  Kevin no longer works in San Jose, but rather for some firm in
> > San Francisco.  I strongly suspect this means there's no practical way
> > he can sponsor events at Cavium, though I haven't asked.  I notice that
> > Kevin's two Meetups (including the one he has generously sponsored for
> > SVLUG's Meetup presence)
>
> I reimbursed him for that actually, but never got around to giving him a
> logo to put up on the meetup.
>
> > have had no meetings since SVLUG's most recent
> > meeting in July 2018 -- except that is Silicon Valley Linux Technology
> > Meetup finally had an interesting meeting this past evening at a new
> > venue in San Francisco.
> >
> > The end-result is that SVLUG's meeting program has for now gone defunct,
> > having neither anyone in this area lining up speakers nor (I infer) an
> > evening meeting venue suitable for technical presentations.   I'm going
> > to soon update www.svlug.org to say meetings have been suspended.
> >
> >
> > If any of y'all would like to _resume_ meetings, I would suggest
> > starting small.  The easly, low-hanging fruit is to find a restaurant
> > that reliably has unoccupied large tables where one or two groups of
> > (say) 8 or 12 people can sit, and eat, and chat.
>
> I regrettably have not made time to come to meetings regularly. If there
> is interest and speakers I could probably arrange for space at hacker dojo.
> Alternately, facilitron https://www.facilitron.com/ rents school
> facilities for extremely reasonable rates and probably everyone chipping in
> 5 bucks
> would easily cover costs.
>
> One observation is that with meetup.com and how massively successful
> Linux has become in the last 20 years, it might be good to understand what
> the
> purpose of this group is vs. other groups. For example I think there are a
> massive number of meetups focused on Linux as a server, but there still
> might be worth in talking about the end user experience for Linux. I'm
> using Ubuntu for my laptop for example.
>
> Resuming installfests would probably help revive the this group, if this
> group wants to be revived. If there were enough people from this group who
> were willing to help with doing installs, I could probably put an
> installfest on the calendar at Hacker dojo for a Saturday in April. It
> might be a
> nice thing to advertise at local schools and colleges.
>
> Incidentally, I'm probably giving a talk at SCALE and it would be nice to
> practice that in advance, like around the end of February. The title is
> "Accidentally Accessible: a Mostly-FOSS Workflow" and I'll be giving it
> along with my employee who is blind. Does anyone want to hear that?
>
> --Sarah
>
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