[wellylug] Fwd: WellyLUG Future

Fri Apr 27 22:58:46 UTC 2018

Hi,

I'd like to reflect Jamies sentiments.

Wellylug has been a gathering  that made me feel at home as a linux
user, supported and encouraged me and many others through the struggles
of getting linux installed and working.  But it was also a meeting place
where we could discuss all manner of things from the SCO lawsuit,
development of openoffice, it lead to be involved in the foundation of
the New Zealand Open Source Society, and even run a spin off HuttLug for
a couple of years.

The Wellylug gave rise to my courage to build a business focused on
linux use in both desktop/workstation and server domains,   Many of my
past and current clients have come from referrals from Wellylug people.
I still have and support clients who are using linux on their desktops
and laptops too and it is the exclusive operating system in my house...
right down to the firewall ;-)

As with Jamie and I suspect many others... it's not a lack of interest
more a lack of time and other more pressing priorities in this season of
my life that prevents my attending the meetings...  that will no doubt
change again in the future, and I hope there will be a renewal of
interest sufficient to kick off wellylug meetings again at some point.

Until then, may the Source be Open, and Freedom to Hack be with you!!

Centurion Dan

On 27/04/18 23:52, Jamie Baddeley wrote:
> 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
> <mailto:bruce at hoult.org>> wrote:
> 
>     On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 4:26 PM, Michael Coleman
>     <michaelcoleman500 at gmail.com <mailto: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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> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

-- 
Daniel Reurich
Centurion Computer Technology (2005) Ltd.
021 797 722

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