Linux Users Group

LINUX USERS GROUPS

Does your city have a LUG? Does your city's LUG have pictures of meetings?

Do a google search for your city's name + "Linux user group" and post pictures.

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Kickass, Alan!

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Why are these groups predominately full of old folks? I think it's neat, but it doesn't really seem to be the type of audience I expected to be interested in these sorts of things.

They are the last generation of Linux users with social skills.

A lot of them are Unix grey-beards and former software engineers fromthe 70s and 80s

I guarantee the guy in the linux shirt is browsing Sup Forums right now

>grey-beards
Indeed

I've been to my local one a few times. A lot of grey beards, some Canonical and OpenSuse devs, sometimes younger people in 20s or 30s.

>Tiny groups that haven't had an update in atleast 4 years.
Kek.

that's not a kek, that's sad

>No update in 7 years
Suffering

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What's the point? I don't really understand why I'd go to one of these meetups.

Ahaha, look at the smug Arch user. You can tell he's silently judging a Ubuntu user to his right somewhere.

That guy has a GNU sticker on his comically tiny laptop

We have a club called GNU Generation on my campus. Never tried talking to them because I use A Ubuntu VM on a Windows 8.1 Laptop and I am too ashamed.

Mostly about obongo and beer. NYC have gitgud LUG.

I preside the Linux Users Group at my state university. The school is fairly well known for its CS program and ranked quite highly among public universities.

We hold talks given by members and the occasional industry employee. Topics are not restricted to Linux specifically, we operate more as a hard technology enthusiasts club primarily focused on kernel up (i.e. not really hardware engineering / ee). The talks are generally very good quality because the only people who attend are either first time attendees, grad students and a few people who are already competent with Linux.

Membership is extremely low, less than twenty. Every semester we struggle to find students willing to serve as officers in order to maintain official club status. Occasionally we get a student who needs legitimate Linux help which we gladly provide. There is a very low incidence of autism, members are regular people and well adjusted. We have had females attend meetings three times in the last two years if memory serves, and each time they did not return. None of us are severely overweight. Majority have current or past girlfriends. Majority own and use thinkpads. Some Chromebooks with a Linux chroot. A couple mbps.

We own a couple servers in uni racks which we use to host our website and teach inexperienced users how to maintain server hardware and how to use shell accounts.

The primary problem is membership. Even at this relatively prestigious CSC school the majority of CS students end up working for banks or WordPress studios, or rot as graduate researchers. Very very few people care about free software or educating themselves about how a computer works outside of class topics. Most are web /OOP fags. Also it is painful to manage the club because I am by far the most knowledgeable person and so I benefit nothing while handling the administrative tasks as well. But the spirit of the club is good and I don't want it to die.

So yeah tl;dr they aren't relevant anymore really.

What the fuck do you even do at a LUG?

>We have had females attend meetings three times in the last two years if memory serves, and each time they did not return
I would kick them out anyway.

Give me a shell account at your uni. I'm not gonna do anything illegal, just want a cool domain for IRC.

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That sounds pretty cool.
At my uni there's a student club for CS, AI and information science, they host talks, workshops (beginner linux, latex..) etc. and also a lot of non-tech related activities like drinking beer.
Since it's just the general purpose student club for three curricula I don't think there's really a need for a separate LUG there, though it would be nice to have a smaller group of hardcore interested people I guess.

Sounds neat, would join.

>What the fuck do you even do at a LUG?

just found this baddie who's a member of my local LUG

>bags under the eyes from the gentoo installation

>member of 69 other meetups

I can almost guarantee you this bimbo doesn't even know what Linux is

from what i can tell, user groups probably made more sense before the popularisation of the internet
that said, i've never been a social person, maybe some people find the face-to-face aspect of them to be appealing in and of itself