[NTLUG:Discuss] NTLUG veterans helping Linux newbies?
Steve Baker
sjbaker1 at airmail.net
Wed Feb 23 06:42:18 CST 2000
Kendall Clark wrote:
>
> >>>>> "Steve" == Steve Baker <sjbaker1 at airmail.net> writes:
>
> Jonathan> OK, actually there are 2 thing that I would
> Jonathan> say. Secondly, us all being fans of open source
> Jonathan> software, I'd like to know what kind of projects the
> Jonathan> members are involved in, and possibly have NTLUG
> Jonathan> sponsored projects.
> >> Sure. We've done that before. NTLUG hosted The Casbah Project
> >> (http://www.casbah.org) for a long time before it got its own
> >> home. Chris uses NTLUG to distribute his Impress tool.
>
> Steve> But with services like SourceForge, there is little need
> Steve> for that anymore.
>
> Yeah, but this was 30 months ago! Long before Sourceforge, which is a
> very new, though well-received development. This was before *any*
> Linux IPOs, before the flood of corporate dollars.
Oh yes - I'm not saying it was wrong (past tense) to host those projects,
just that there are now better ways to do that.
> Steve> There is no real reason these days for people to develop
> Steve> software with people who live nearby. One of the projects
> Steve> I work on has people from Germany, Australia and Brazil
> Steve> working on it...and that's with just 8 people working it.
> Steve> Why would I want to restrict myself to developers from
> Steve> North Texas?
>
> Who said anything about that? The group I develop with is located in
> North Carolina, Georgia, Iowa, upstate New York, Belgium, So. Cal and
> Boston, etc.
>
> No one said or implied that you or anyone else should restrict who you
> develop with. You misinterpreted Jonathan's remarks.
No - I don't think I did. I'm just trying to point out that the role
NTLUG has should not be seen as an email/web-based thing. It's strength
over other ways to do things is ONLY that people who belong to NTLUG
live within a reasonable driving distance of each other.
That's the strength we have to play to.
If there is a need for a newbie mailing list - then that could be set
up anywhere on the planet and work just as well as an NTLUG list. What
WE CAN DO is to put people in physical contact for hands-on sessions.
> You're tilting at windmills. Many newbies of course don't know about
> the myriad of groups and mailing lists.
Yep - and teaching them that it's easy to go get help all over the
place is an important thing to do in face-to-face sessions (since
you can't learn that on one of those myriad mailing lists :-)
> Calm down.
It's OK - I'm perfectly calm - this is a GREAT discussion for this
list.
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