[SLL] interesting article on LUGs

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2007, Zach Carter wrote:
>This brings up a question for me.  Is there a good LUG 
>that meets regularly around Seattle?  The last time I 
>researched it, I didn't find anything that was meeting 
>regularly in town..
>
>http://www.linux.com/feature/118046

I don't know of any Linux groups that meet regularly in the Seattle area.

One major factor in the decline of user groups is the ready availability of
on-line resources where people can get answers to questions, discuss
issues, etc.  Linux has progressed to the point where the need for help
installing systems has dropped markedly.

The only *nix group that I know of that's having an active program of
meetings is the Seattle Mac Users Group, http://www.dbug.org which meets in
North Seattle.  They have quite an active schedule of SIG meetings at their
resource center, open sessions every Saturday morning there where people
can bring machines and talk to others and get questions answered, and
frequently have tutorials on Saturday afternoons.  I've done several
tutorials on Unix for OSX, and am probably going to be doing some on
specific CLI and open source applications.

Having been on the board of directors of the Seattle Unix Group,
http://www.seaslug.org, since it was founded in 1984, I've seen the biggest
problem is getting interesting presenters, and members who are willing to
do what's necessary to keep things going.  It requires a fair amount of
effort to arrange speakers and come up with things to keep people coming to
meetings.  It always seems that the workload falls on a very few people,
who may not be able to continue their efforts.

Bill
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