[PLUG] Setting up a new linux users' group HOWTO

[Carlos Konstanski]

After 10 months of service (and counting) in a Microsoft/Oracle death
shop, it is refreshing to hear a fellow human being extol this brand of
policy.  Yes, there will be a place for Wood River linux enthusiasts to
meet without fear of rolling eyes and threats of linux workstation
wipage and windows re-installation at the slightest provocation by a
windows-washed manager who can't deal with a software vendor that he
can't sue.  There will be a place where many computers will congregate
in a room, and they will all be linux boxes.  There will be a place
where the young linux newbie can come to absorb knowledge from his
elders, so that he too may enter the workplace with an eye toward
redecorating his hard drive and spreading our "mad penguin disease" to
others who might otherwise have perished not knowing there was
something better out there.

Thank you for the positive feedback.  I am buying wrlug.org right now!

Carlos

On Sun, 23 Jul 2006, Richard C. Steffens wrote:

> Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 13:52:24 -0700
> From: Richard C. Steffens <rsteff at comcast.net>
> Reply-To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help;	civil and on-topic"
>     <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
> To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help;	civil and on-topic"
>     <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Setting up a new linux users' group HOWTO
> 
> Carlos Konstanski wrote:
>
>>  First of all, can anybody start a linux users' group, or is there a
>>  higher power to which I must answer?  An Uber Tux Authority or the like?
>
> Considering that the "official" word on membership in PLUG is that if you say 
> you are a member, you are a member, and considering that this is an open 
> source endeavor, I'd be very surprised if there were such an authority.
>
>>  Is there any reason why my venture would be considered ill-advised?
>
> Even a small group of 3 or 4 who get together once in awhile can provide 
> support and encouragement for each other.
>
> -- 
> Regards,
>
> Dick Steffens
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