[Tfug] Face to face meetingplace

[marcia wilbur]

So yea. It's the culture around lugs...just not filling the seats.

The cons though...are a blast!!!

On Oct 5, 2017 7:13 PM, <techlists at phpcoderusa.com> wrote:

>
> I don't think there is a decline in Linux usage, if anything I think usage
> has increased substantially.  Linux is main stream.  I think the culture
> surrounding Linux has changed and those guys and gals using Linux 18 years
> ago might have grown up or old.  I think Linux was counter culture 20 years
> ago and now everyone is using it.  I watched the decline in the lists.  10
> years ago the PLUG and TFUG were alive, as was AZPHP.  Now they are ghost
> towns.
>
>
> I hope I can find a hands on group to join that is in the Phoenix East
> valley.
>
> Happy hunting!!
>
>
> On 2017-10-05 18:34, Caiser wrote:
>
> I get the feel it's still mostly for hobbyists. I've been going (just to
> their Linux meetings, mostly) for a few months and no one has asked me to
> pay any dues.
>
> The Linux meetings are small, maybe 8-12 people; the General meetings are
> larger by about three or four times that, from what I remember of the one I
> went to. It's a damn shame that apparently Linux stuff used to be way more
> popular about ten years ago when I was a little kid and not into computers
> as much, and now that I've discovered it and fallen in love with it,
> there's not many people around in Tucson to enjoy it with.
>
> On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 3:25 PM, <techlists at phpcoderusa.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Back in the day, the TCS required dues and was mostly for hobbyists,
>> whereas TFUG was more for admin and people that waned to go a little
>> deeper.
>>
>> What is the status of TCS today?
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2017-10-05 15:16, Caiser wrote:
>>
>> The Tucson Computer Society is pretty cool, I've been to a few of their
>> Linux meetings and intend to become a regular attendee there.
>>
>> That does suck about TFUG not having a regular meetup, I was hoping
>> there'd be more Linux-related fun stuff to go to aroundTucson, lol.
>> Regardless, thanks for the recommendation, and for confirming that TFUG
>> doesn't have meetings anymore.
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 1:03 PM, erich <erich1 at copper.net> wrote:
>>
>>> There was a thread called "Newbie question" that
>>> originally pertained to a TFUG meetingplace.
>>> We don't have one, and we haven't decided on one.
>>>
>>> Meanwhile Tucson Computer Society has a Linux
>>> meeting coming up:
>>>
>>> http://www.aztcs.org/sigs/linux.shtml
>>>
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