| Frederick Heckel on 5 May 2004 02:10:02 -0000 |
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On Tue, 4 May 2004 21:29:41 -0400 (EDT) Magnus Hedemark <chrish@trilug.org> claimed: > On Tue, 4 May 2004, sean finney wrote: > > > i'd be interested to hear about any developments for an at-swat > > meeting, as i work there half the week and live within walking > > distance. how many delco people are we talking about anyway? > > /me raises his hand. (duh) > > I'm in Prospect Park. Swarthmore is only a few miles away, so I'm > *very* game to meet with some local FOSS enthusiasts there. > > Small nit - can we avoid calling it a LUG if we get something started? > A > lot of these groups tend to polarize its members when the natural > tendency to discuss *BSD comes up. While some are very tolerant, > others take the viewpoint that the very nature of a LINUX Users Group > precludes the constructive discussion of other free OS's. IMHO I'd > like to see a group meet from time to time that encourages the > discussion of *anything* that has an OSI-approved license. fwiw, slug(the mailing list) is generally *nix focused(including, say, OSX and Solaris, so not just OSI stuff), rather than merely linux. it's not really an issue for the people who are presently involved, and i can't imagine that it would be if we actually got together. i think it'd be great to actually meet, as i generally just don't have time to get to plug meetings... anyway, if this is something that would be worthwhile, might take the thread over to slug proper; the list can be found through: http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu or just: https://secure.sccs.swarthmore.edu/mailman/listinfo/slug (but i have to make sure the first url goes out, being one of the sccs system administrators, therefore perpetually seeking attention for our group...:) (fwph) -- Frederick Heckel [fwph@sccs.swarthmore.edu] (The strange attachment is my digital signature; do not be alarmed) Attachment:
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