[PLUG] Finding geographically local Linux user group

[King Beowulf]

On 2/7/26 06:12, Richard Owlett wrote:
> 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.
>
> ~20 years ago there was a general computer users group {Windows focused}
> but it apparently died when COVID appeared.
>
> Is there some sort of national 'database'?
>
> TIA
>
>
Richard,

You can ask the folks in the STllug (https://stllug.sluug.org/) if they 
know of any LUGs closer to Springfield.    I've got a few dead links to 
LUG directories, but these seem to still be updated:

https://www.linuxlinks.com/linux-world/
https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group_list

LUGS are a bit of a "retro" concept these days, you can try a few old 
time pre-web internet services like Gopher.  You might be able to find a 
LUG list still actively maintained.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)

I have links to Floodgap Systems (also has a web portal) and 
Super-Dimensional Fortress (SDF Public Access UNIX System) on my gopher 
page:

gopher://gopher.linuxgalaxy.org

Unfortunately, most web browsers have dropped gopher:// (no idea why 
since the code is very small and stable).  I use:

lynx
Mosaic-ck
lagrange

There are a few others. You can poke around in your distro's repo.

Unfortunately, lots of LUGs have faded; I'm still flabbergasted that 
PLUG is active.  Not being much of a "volunteer" over the decades, 
hopefully my current penance of recording and posting PLUG meeting 
videos will help keep PLUG alive a bit longer.

-Ed