[wplug-announce] Ohio Linux Fest update: Tentative BoF Schedule

Justin Smith justin at js-wordsmith.com
Tue Sep 3 12:06:04 EDT 2013


On Friday, September 13th, WPLUG will hold an 8:00 p.m. Birds of a Feather 
social gathering at Ohio Linux Fest[1] entitled "Rethinking LUGs." I've 
attached the complete schedule for BoF events for your reference.

In the old days, LUGs served very specific, very important needs in the 
community. Linux wasn't nearly as easy to set up as it is today, and you 
couldn't just hop on the Internet and find solutions to your problems. LUGs 
helped people get started and keep going.

Those roles haven't kept up with the times, though. Almost anyone can 
burn an Ubuntu CD and follow the instructions, and there's no shortage of 
support resources on the Internet: forums, IRC chat, mailing lists, and even 
person-to-person if you know the right people. 

When commonly-used software becomes outdated, it's often replaced with 
something better that includes backward compatibility so users can keep 
the old while moving toward the new. That's what we on the board think 
LUGs could do - remain available for support, but get started with exciting 
new projects that address today's areas of need in the open source 
community.

If you'll be at OLF, we hope you'll stop by! If you can't come but have ideas 
for what we could discuss, feel free to email them to me or Joe and we'll do 
our best to bring them up.

To submit anonymous feedback, you can send me a BitMessage[2] at 
BM-2DARH85HXrgqmMPCCgUCNWZQdwEcoNeiwu

--
*Justin S. Smith*
Vice chair/secretary, WPLUG Board of Directors
http://www.wplug.org[3] 

"Isn't it ironic that the proprietary software developers call us communists? 
We are the ones who have provided for a free market, where they allow 
only monopoly."
-Richard Stallman

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[1] http://www.ohiolinux.org/
[2] https://bitmessage.org/
[3] http://www.wplug.org 
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