<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Hi,<div><br></div><div>I'd just like to say hello to Wellylug people at this juncture.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br></div><div>jamie</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 27 April 2018 at 23:04, Bruce Hoult <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bruce@hoult.org" target="_blank">bruce@hoult.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 4:26 PM, Michael Coleman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michaelcoleman500@gmail.com" target="_blank">michaelcoleman500@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div>Hard to know why the enthusiasm isn't manifest like it used to be, possibly?<br></div><div><br></div><div>* linux users are too much of a minority<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's certainly not true. According to Google, there are over 2 BILLION monthly active users carrying Linux-based devices in their pockets.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div></div><div>* hard to get talks that aren't kind of "distro" specific.<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Maybe.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div></div><div>* maybe linux has matured to the point that people no longer need help with hardware and installing? :)</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>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 :-) :-)</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div></div></div></div>
<br><span class="m_-6520217481492219823HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
-- <br>
Wellington Linux Users Group Mailing List: <a href="mailto:wellylug@lists.wellylug.org.nz" target="_blank">wellylug@lists.wellylug.org.nz</a><br>
To Leave: <a href="http://lists.wellylug.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/wellylug" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.wellylug.org.nz/m<wbr>ailman/listinfo/wellylug</a><br>
<br></font></span></blockquote></div><br></div>
</div><br></div>