[Tfug] Is TFUG dead?

[marcia wilbur]

Great points. I have been thinking along the same lines of "failure of old
to inspire young". At our LUG - Maricopa Pinal, we are working to bridge
that gap.

We have a community outreach program with goals to donate Linux Computers
to local recipients. The computers we donate are donated to us. We haven't
even begun and in just mentioning our goals, we have a nice Dell with
xubuntu and a Laptop with Mint 17.

I don't know that we need to be consistent with one distro and it will
depend on the receivers' preferences.

The first place we reached out to was Boys and Girls Club. I am sure we
will have no shortage of people wanting to be recipients.

For 2015, we plan to offer workshops at our local shared workspace -
Gangplank and possibly the Hive - at the library for west side community
members.

I guess we will see what this year brings, but I really would love to see
more young people attend, participate and work with us, living, learning
and enjoying Linux.


http://www.mpglug.org/

On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 11:15 AM, Jon <bigj at voipmogul.net> wrote:

> There has definitely been a decline in posts for many years now. Many of
> us have grown up (I'm excluded from that) and don't have much time to spend
> in front of a computer anymore unless we are getting paid for it.
>
> And yes, everything is bigger in Texas. Gigitty.
>
>
>
> On January 6, 2015 9:51:50 AM erich <erich1 at copper.net> wrote:
>
>  I also belong to,
>>         North Texas Linux Users Group, (NTLUG), There the discussions tend
>> to be lively,  more frequent, and focused on some highly technical and
>> focused
>> subjects. Dallas is a much bigger town than Tucson, so it may be unfair
>> to compare the frequency of posts there with here.
>>         Nonetheless I sense that there is a decline in posts here. I
>> sense that Linux
>> users are getting older, and that there is a failure of the old to
>> inspire the
>> young to come on board. By the way, Betty White was born in 1922. I'm
>> old, but not that old. :)
>>
>> Erich
>>
>> malcolm wrote:
>> > Betty, Erich is the one who has the problem. Talk to him. It has never
>> > bothered me.
>> >
>> > On 01/04/2015 10:13 PM, Jon wrote:
>> >> If an email being filtered as a result of a spam filter is considered
>> >> censoring then I'm Betty White.
>> >>
>> >> I will look into turning off the spam (censor) filter to keep that
>> >> from happening.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On January 4, 2015 9:34:27 PM malcolm <mjs355 at comcast.net> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Erich says he's being censored by spam filters.
>> >>>
>> >>> On 01/04/2015 09:00 PM, Jon wrote:
>> >>> > Who is being censored and by whom?
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> > On January 4, 2015 7:06:25 PM malcolm <mjs355 at comcast.net> wrote:
>> >>> >
>> >>> >> I may not post much but read it all. From my point of view, TFUG is
>> >>> >> still well and kicking. I don't have much fondness for any form of
>> >>> >> censorship.
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> On 01/03/2015 07:59 PM, erich wrote:
>> >>> >> > Thanks to,
>> >>> >> >        Rigorous restrictions on posting  set up by Spam filters
>> >>> >> > This, is the first post , as far as I can see for the new year.
>> >>> >> >       There used to be elaborate posts , (They weren't obnoxious,
>> >>> >> > but they were only mildly informative).
>> >>> >> >        It's frustrating to make a long-winded post only to have
>> >>> >> > it kicked back by the spam censors isn't it?
>> >>> >> >
>> >>> >> > Erich
>> >>> >> >
>> >>> >> >
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