> -----Original Message----- > From: William L. Thomson Jr. [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 8:37 PM > To: Jax-LUG > Subject: RE: Facebook > > On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 20:25 -0400, Mike Rathburn wrote: > > > 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.
No way William! I yell that with a grin. :) I doubt many students in our universities now even have a clue as to what a "user's group" is. I venture the response will be "Don’t you mean a meetup, or friend's list, or followers?" > Those areas they are quite big in, also have thriving tech industries, and > this is > just not that area. At least not yet ;) Would not the JaxLUG have some responsibility in that expansion? > > 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. > Yeah, mailing lists and IRC channels should take care of that. > 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. > Having flashbacks to the hobbyist versus corporate debate we had here a while back that I didn't partake in. Cool or not cool, it is a necessity and infiltrated in our everyday lives (think Facebook is running in Winblows?). --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
