[Tfug] Newbie question

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Been thinking it might be nice to have a mixed (developers and admin)
meeting at Gangplank on Wednesday hack night.  I'm a PHP developer and I
need to know some LAMP stack.  I'm not an admin.... but it sure helps to
know some stuff.  I'd like to expand my Linux skills.  I ran Mint for a
while and just went back to Windows.  Windows and Macs just work.  Linux
requires more skills to run it as a desktop.  One of the issues I ran
into was configuring my printer to scan.  In Win or Mac you just slip
the DVD in the drive and in 10 minutes your printer, scanner, fax, and
copier just works.  I do not have hours to figure things out when I need
a scanner working like yesterday.  I'll probably be in Win for 3 to 5
years and then I would like to return to Linux. 

Would be nice to hang out with Linux geeks and trade ideas, stories,
skills, etc. 

When I attended TFUG in 2001 or 2002 the gathering was about 10 to 15. 

Are you still holding meetings in the East Valley? 

What does "Join the slack?" mean? 

Keith 

On 2017-10-04 20:21, marcia wilbur wrote:

> You do realize I've been holding Linux meetings in Chandler, Queen Creek and Avondale for a few years now... 
> 
> Maybe this is why the attendance is so low. 
> We even tried Burton Barr Library, Gangplank, The Queen Creek Library 
> 
> Our meetings are hands on but we really didn't get much interest. Maybe 5-10 max. 
> 
> I'm on the Linux elitist mailing list for about 17 years now... it's dead mostly too. 
> Join the slack? 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 8:00 PM, <techlists at phpcoderusa.com> wrote:
> 
> Around 2000 to maybe 2002 or 2003 TFUG used to meet.  And I seem to recall meetings around 1999 or 2000 at the Tucson newspaper facility. 
> 
> I attended for a short while in 2002.  I always enjoyed the meetings.  Nothing like meeting in person as a group.  I now live in Phoenix and have attended the PLUG meetings.  I always enjoy them, however they meet for a presentation and then everyone leaves.  I wish there was a meeting I could go to with my laptop and get some pointers on how to do things like apply a driver.... etc.  I think those types of meetings would be fun and I think I would learn a lot. 
> 
> TFUG has always been a group that does not like structure.  
> 
> I think most Linux groups do not meet much anymore.  And take a look at the lists.  They used to be very busy.  I belong to two Linux lists and AZPHP.  All three lists are like a ghost town these days.  10 to 15 years ago they were alive.  What happened?  I miss the good old days!!    
> 
> On 2017-10-04 19:23, marcia wilbur wrote: 
> I was really considering a synchronous meeting online at this point. For this month.  
> Honestly. 
> 
> You can be at your house... I can be at mine... 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 7:12 PM, erich <erich1 at copper.net> wrote:
> How late,
> are any of these places open? I suspect Summit Hut/Natural Grocers would have a problem
> for us beyond 9:00PM
> 
> Erich
> Garrett Weaver wrote:
> My roommate hosted a music video meetup at Natural Grocers a few months ago. They have enclosed event/cooking rooms that can seat about 10 people with tables and probably 25 without tables. They don't have a requirement on the type of event or group type. However they do not have a projector so you would need to bring your own monitor. 
> On Sep 12, 2017 9:30 PM, "Doug Wellington" <doug at dougwellington.com <mailto:doug at dougwellington.com>> wrote:
> 
> Anybody have a lead on a decent place to meet and have informal
> presentations?  Cartel was too noisy.  Summit Hut has a nice room,
> but no projector, and they close at 8PM.  Libraries only provide
> rooms for non-profit entities.  Fronimos is alright, but it's hard
> to eat and present at the same time.  I've been trying to work
> something out with CoLab, but that's a slow process.
> 
> I talked with the TEKsystems guy tonight when I was at the python
> meetup and he is interested in providing beer and pizza for us.     That makes the room at Summit Hut more attractive for a meeting
> place.  (And pushes away from Fronimos since it would be rude to
> bring in outside food.)
> 
> Doug
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [Tfug] Newbie question
> From: Garrett Weaver <wagarrettweaver at gmail.com
> <mailto:wagarrettweaver at gmail.com>>
> Date: Tue, September 12, 2017 6:03 pm
> To: Tucson Free Unix Group <tfug at tfug.org <mailto:tfug at tfug.org>>
> 
> Caiser, 
> I attended the 2016 meetings, but most of the people who
> attended were UA students who graduated this year and last.
> The rest on us went to the Tucson Linux meetup group on
> meetup.com [1] <http://meetup.com>, but I only went to two of
> their meetings so far. I'm still in Tucson if anyone is
> interested in doing another meetup. 
> 
> On Sep 12, 2017 12:40 PM, "Sean Whitton"
> <spwhitton at spwhitton.name <mailto:spwhitton at spwhitton.name>>
> wrote:
> 
> Hello Caiser,
> 
> On Tue, Sep 12 2017, Caiser wrote:
> 
>> Are the monthly meetings still a thing?
> 
> They restarted August 2016--December 2016 but then two
> thirds of the
> people attending moved out of Tucson, so I stopped
> organising them.
> 
> Feel free to try again!
> 
> --
> Sean Whitton
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