[Tfug] Is TFUG dead?

malcolm mjs355 at comcast.net
Wed Jan 7 22:40:34 MST 2015


My dentist had a laptop hopelessly mired in viruses. I talked him into 
Ubuntu. He couldn't be happier.

On 01/06/2015 06:18 PM, Harry McGregor wrote:
On 01/06/2015 01:55 PM, marcia wilbur wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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
>         <mailto: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 <mailto: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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