[PLUG] Finding geographically local Linux user group

[Russell Senior]

Fwiw, freenode kind of imploded a few years ago, and most people left to 
something called libera.chat. There are other irc server constellations 
too, for example #pdxlinux is on geekshed. Another IRC server is oftc.

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Russell Senior
russell at pdxlinux.org

On 2/7/26 09:16, kenjen--- 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.
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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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