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| DATE | 2001-10-11 |
| FROM | Ruth Shanen
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] definition of TheLinuxSociety [ was:Organizational planning]
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>>On Wed, 10 Oct 2001 22:33:30
>> David Sugar wrote:
>> I have heard of this group mentioned in passing maybe once or twice
>> before, but I still know nothing of it. What is/was "The Linux Society"?
>> ><<>> > Tonight I am yoked to a meeting focusing on the
>> > re-organization of "TheLinuxSociety" before its current
>> > entropy becomes irreversible.>>>
>> >
TheLinuxSociety (www.thelinuxsociety.org)
is a SIG of NYPC (www.nypc.org).
TheLinuxSociety is free and open to all, and it will
remain that way. It is currently a sub-group of
NYPC which has meeting space in The New York Hotel
at 34 Street and 8th Ave. NYPC "encourages" attendees
to become paid members, but does not enforce this.
TheLinuxSociety will only stay part of NYPC as long
as they are allowed to continue with free attendance.
Currently TheLinuxSociety holds one general meeting
each month (various presentations related to Linux) and
holds two study group meetings each month. The Study
Group meetings are aimed at preparing for the LPI
Linux Certification Exams.
We've had some problems with attendance, partly
due to a summer fall-off, partly due to a recent illness
of the club's leader, Denny Nikolopoulos.
The planning meeting of TheLinuxSociety went
reasonably well. Denny is back up to speed, we raised
some questions which we plan to take to the members,
and we have some ideas for enhancing the group. There
is finally access to a reliable server, the possibility
of joining with DELUGE (another NYPC Linux SIG), and
some thought of organizing entry-level classes.
I was a little disappointed, because I personally
feel TheLinuxSociety has not had enough follow-through
from its leader and volunteers, and that was not
really addressed. Tomorrow (Friday), the Study Group
is going to cover "Documentation and Man Pages", but will
also ask the attendees to participate in planning the
future study group meetings. I can only hope.
- Ruth
PS - We have a substantial number of OpenSource groups in
this area. Too many to get to all of the meetings.
I try to maintain an up-to-date calendar, and the
lugdetails.html page contains links to all the LUGs
that I have found locally.
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Casandra's Calendar - Linux and Gnu events NYC/tri-state area
http://www.netcom.com/~casandra/linux/calendar.html
Details and links to the LUGs:
http://www.netcom.com/~casandra/linux/lugdetails.html
Links to other (not OpenSource) groups:
http://www.netcom.com/~casandra/usergrps/othergrp.html
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