[PLUG] Finding geographically local Linux user group

[Richard Owlett]

Thank you for your response.
I did individual DuckDuckGo searches for freenode, Mastodon, and Matrix 
without any informative responses. I've ideas for more productive 
searches, but will respond first to the post by Ted Mittelstaedt who I 
suspect is of my generation. ROFL(YMMV;)

On 2/7/26 11:16 AM, keen--- via PLUG wrote:
> Not that I know of. If I were searching, I'd query freenode got IRC(andor Mastodon, Matrix, et cetera) servers with "Springfield" in the name.
> Thanks | おおきに / ありがとう | Kiitos | Merci | Gracias | Obrigada | Grazie | 谢谢 | Danke | Wado | спасибо,
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> "You should be as alive as you can until you're totally dead!" - Dylan Moran
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> 2026年2月7日 6:12 差出人:  rowlett at access.net:
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>> I'm in rural SW Missouri [Springfield nearest city].
>> My web search turned up groups in Kansas City, St. Louis, and one evidently somewhere along Mississippi river.
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>> ~20 years ago there was a general computer users group {Windows focused} but it apparently died when COVID appeared.
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>> Is there some sort of national 'database'?
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>> TIA
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