On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Michael Goggin <[email protected]> wrote: > My sentiments exactly Todd, > > I went to meetings many years ago and then my schedule interfered so I have > not been in a while. I think it is important to continue the group and > maybe do a better job of advertising beyond the Math/CS Dept. One thought > regarding the drop in attendance: Perhaps the new distros are too good, they > don't need the same level of knowledge to use. Therefore people have less > need for fsck to migrate. I know of several students who have migrated to > open source but probably not attended a fsck meeting. > > Cheers, > Mike Goggin
The days of struggling in VH1000 to get an xorg.conf to make Debian work are probably over. :) So FSCK needs a different focus then when I was at Truman for sure. Since being an open source user isn't quite the trial that it used to be (I haven't even compiled a kernel in over a year), perhaps the focus.should be the flip side, on producing open source software. My suggestion is get together a team and work on some sort of open source project. I always though it would've been fun to work with others locally on a project. Career-wise, open source was the most productive thing I did during my time at Truman. I'm involved in KDE so I could help out from afar. But its not really hard to get involved with a project, mostly just show up in their IRC channel or mailing list. All healthy open source projects are really happy to see new faces since thats the only way they can survive. As a wise man once said "Developers! Developers! Developers!". There's a lot of neat projects out there. GSoC's 2010 organization list is a good starting point. http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/program/accepted_orgs/google/gsoc2010 Anyways just a suggestion. Would make for an interesting side project at least. Ian ----------------------------------------------------------------- To get off this list, send email to [email protected] with Subject: unsubscribe -----------------------------------------------------------------
