On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 20:25 -0400, Mike Rathburn wrote: > > JaxLUG is an acronym. It's cryptic. It's militaristic. It's > governmental. Only those in the know know what it means and use it in > any type of conversation or correspondence. Go to the Fundamentals of > Programming 101 class at UNF, stick your head in the room and ask if > anyone wants to join the JaxLUG. Only the professor might have a clue > as to what you're talking about. But if you ask if anyone wants to > join the Jacksonville Linux User's Group, you'll have 100% > comprehension from the audience.
Jacksonville is very commonly known as Jax far outside the area and those in the know. Simply because our Airport known as JAX, and they even call it JAX Airport, not Jacksonville Airport. Many refer to Atlanta as the ATL, same deal there. Much less with things like JaxPort ;) If your in college at a University in a computer science class and don't know the acronym LUG. You really need to check yourself and education level. Much less combining the two, JaxLUG, really is not rocket science or that cryptic. Not to mention if your in Jacksonville physically and don't know Jax means Jacksonville, not sure how to help them, but they need it :) That said I recall telling many the URL and name of the LUG, and they are like Homer Simpson, duh... So for some reason it not on the top of the mind. > If you want group involvement and activity, then you have to be found > to be heard. This city of a million plus should have JaxLUG > participation and membership in the hundreds, if not thousands. > Relying upon a mailing list and, what's it called?, IRC?, is way > beyond yesterday and typically nothing anyone under the age of 30 > wants to partake in. Things are easily found if your looking for it. But this area is not known for its tech culture, thus I do not expect many to be flocking to such things. That said even when I have attended LUG meetings in San Francisco, during Linux World with tons of people in town and otherwise for such. LUG meetings are typically not record settings. In some areas User Group meetings are quite big, but not in all. Those areas they are quite big in, also have thriving tech industries, and this is just not that area. At least not yet ;) Following others trends and stuff won't help the JaxLUG. Being creative and innovative doing things our own way for others to follow. That is the way to get things to change in the area. It could also be that Linux is just not cool anymore. No more than the refrigerator is cool. But at one point the fridge was a cool thing, and these days its just one of many technologies we depend on, and no longer see as cool. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
