I will second the RIP of DLSLUG. The "Greater New Hampshire Linux User's Group" (GNHLUG) and its offshoots over the years in Nashua, Durham, Hanover, Manchester, and (at one time, Keene) was a good run.
Having started with the first one in 1995 in Durham, GNHLUG (pronounced like drinking a swallow of good craft beer) held one meeting before the founder gave it up and I took it over. I ran it for ten years, and most of that was on the second floor of Martha's exchange restaurant, with some quarterly meetings at Daniel Webster College when we had a really good speaker. We had some pretty good meetings. I dragged Linus up to UNH in Durham when he attended a USENIX meeting in Boston, and we had some other "notables" give talks. I had to give it up because I was traveling too much for DEC and Linux and I did not want to invite a speaker (often a personal friend of mine) and not have things "go right". Others took over running the meetings, but decided that it was too much work, and eventually the monthly meetings stopped. Some people revived the meetings in Manchester and they had some good ones with decent (in my mind) attendance, but eventually those stopped too. Andy Stewart ran the WPI LUG for a while, then created a Meetup group which (I think) was eventually killed by COVID. And there still is a LUG at WPI. And of course there is BLU in Boston. I have been trying to start the GNHLUG meetings up again, but have been having problems finding a location to hold them that is both stable (able to be booked months in advance) and gratis. A community college would have been "gratis" but insisted that I have liability insurance that would cost 100-200 dollars a month. I would prefer a local (to me) high school or college, hoping to attract students into a "Linux Club" as the hub of the group. My idea is to have a hybrid event, for people who want to "meet and greet" can attend, but people that are busy or too far away can attend virtually. This puts some restrictions on the various needs for the venue. Ben Kallus has been kind enough to invite me for a "luncheon" in Hanover (1.5 hours away), but I would want to take my husband and he is busy during the day, so I would like it to be on a weekend. Ben is pursuing that, but has indicated that weekdays are preferable. This email would not be complete without a more than appreciative shout-out to Ben Scott, who has been the GNHLUG webmaster and maintainer of the mailing lists all these years. I am not sure exactly when Ben took over, but it has been at least two decades. I have not given up on the gnhlug.org mailing list and meetings, but I thought I would let y'all know what has been happening. And Ben, you can add me to the mailing list for the meetup meetings. maddog > On 03/06/2024 11:08 AM EST G Rundlett <greg.rundl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > RIP DSLUG > > Greg Rundlett > > > On Wed, Mar 6, 2024 at 10:09 AM Ben Kallus > <benjamin.p.kallus...@dartmouth.edu > mailto:benjamin.p.kallus...@dartmouth.edu> wrote: > > > LUGgers, > > > > The DLSLUG kicked the bucket earlier this year :( > > > > However, a few months ago, Doug Madory started a monthly meetup that > > covers a lot of the same ground. > > (https://www.meetup.com/computer-science-in-the-upper-valley/) > > > > It's hosted in-person in the new Dartmouth CS building with > > refreshments provided by the department. Like most buildings on > > campus, the building is open to the public until about 10:00 PM. > > > > There is a mailing list if you don't likehttp://meetup.com ; please email me > > to be added to it. > > > > -Ben > > _______________________________________________ > > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org mailto:gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ > > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ >
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