[wellylug] Fwd: WellyLUG Future

[Jamie Baddeley]

Hi,

I'd just like to say hello to Wellylug people at this juncture.

I was involved in the Lug in the early mid/2000's. I think Jethro was like
14 or 15 but he was doing website stuff and demonstrating early young
cleverness with Linux.

I helped along Wellylug with Brent at NIWA (you still there Brent?) and a
few others at some Linux InstallFests (remember them?) at some outfit in
Lower Hutt I can't recall. We even had the Evening Post do a story on this
thing called Leenucks. Helped run some wellylug meetings for a bit. Helped
make the website and helped craft the Mailing AUP. Keeping the lug humming
etc. Buggered about with the Wellylug Logo using Gimp (something version
0.1 or something) whilst living in Newtown.

I think the philosophical characteristics of Linux and the Opensource
movements have won. I think the tech we backed and pimped has become
accepted and part of the industry and it's moved from small player looking
for recognition to one that is accepted. There's still a long way to go but
we are at the end of the beginning. I think the principles of openness and
sharing still need to be defended. There's still heaps of work to do.
Stallman is still mad, but Stallman still has a point.

I've learnt so much from all of the Linux/Opensource community over the
years and that support has helped me have confidence in my perspectives
over the years. Thank you all for that. I really appreciate it.

These days as Jethro says, I'm a little older, got some kids and have some
different priorities in life. Have a few other things on the go. I'm still
a Linux/Unix head.

But I'll always remember the times at Wellylug where I felt like I was with
my own tribe and what I believed was right was no longer unusual. That made
me happy.

Pleased to hear there's a next stage brewing at WOSSAT. Maybe I'll bump
into some old friends there and make some new ones.



Cheers

jamie



On 27 April 2018 at 23:04, Bruce Hoult <bruce at hoult.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 4:26 PM, Michael Coleman <
> michaelcoleman500 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hard to know why the enthusiasm isn't manifest like it used to be,
>> possibly?
>>
>> * linux users are too much of a minority
>>
>
> That's certainly not true. According to Google, there are over 2 BILLION
> monthly active users carrying Linux-based devices in their pockets.
>
>
>> * hard to get talks that aren't kind of "distro" specific.
>>
>
> Maybe.
>
>
>> * maybe linux has matured to the point that people no longer need help
>> with hardware and installing? :)
>>
>
> Definitely. Most people don't know or care that the device in their pocket
> is running Linux -- and so are the vast majority of the servers it talks to.
>
>
> I came to wellylug meetings regularly thirteen years ago when I had a gf
> who was super keen getting weird hardware (mostly laptops) working with
> Linux, writing KDE documentation etc. WIFI, audio, and ethernet were
> particular bugbears at the time. Audio and ethernet seem to be solved
> problems now :-) :-)
>
> Me, I just use Linux every day, on everything from ARM-based watches and
> phones (Tizen is Linux too) and the Raspberry Pi range and Odroids, to my
> quad core 1.5 GHz RISC-V "HiFive Unleashed" board, to my i7 NUC or i9 tower
> at home, to servers at SiFive (since last month .. previously at Samsung
> Research Institute Moscow from April 2015 until last month), to a 24/7
> t2.nano and occasional m5.{12,24}xlarge or c5.{9,18}xlarge at AWS when I'm
> building a lot of stuff.
>
>
>
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