Re: [SLUG] Fwd: Club History
Matthew Hannigan wrote: On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 07:51:19AM +1000, Peter Chubb wrote: Yes, that was an amazing meeting. IIRC, we'd expected maybe a dozen people, and got closer to fifty.We had far too few chairs, and almost no refreshments. [ ... ] I have a photo of that meeting! Unfortunately I can't find it at the mo. Will keep looking. Perhaps you can post the photo to the wiki. I've just created a history of SLUG page and included a link to this thread. see http://wiki.slug.org.au/ Marghanita -- Marghanita da Cruz http://ramin.com.au Tel: 0414-869202 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Fwd: Club History
Sorry for the delay replying :-) On Fri, 26 May 2006 21:59:29 -0700, Lindsay Holmwood writes: Although i'm familiar with the past few years of SLUG history, would some of the old timers care to help me out with the following email? -- Forwarded message -- From: Steve Demeo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: May 27, 2006 4:29 AM Subject: Club history I have heard it rumored that one of the first Linux User Groups in the world was founded in Australia. I understand that the Sydney Linux User Group (SLUG) was established in 1993 only 2 years after Linus Torvalds originally created the Linux operating system. Would you have any information with regard to whether SLUG was the first LUG? If not the first where in the rankings would you guess it would be placed? If not would you have an indication of which global LUG's may have established earlier that SLUG? The inaugural SLUG meeting (which I attended) was held on Friday 30th July 1993 at Softway in Chippendale. Here's a copy of the announcement email: In chrisf.742192...@sour.sw.oz.au chr...@sour.sw.oz.au (Christopher Fraser) writes: SLUG (Sydney Linux Users Group) inaugural meeting is to be held on Friday 30th July at the premises of: Softway Pty Ltd Level 2 79 Myrtle St Chippendale The meeting will commence at around 6:15pm, but please try and arrive by 6:00pm. It should be a fairly informal meeting. We're planning on having a few short presentations on recent news/developments, R3000 board project, etc. If you'd you have any other suggestions or would like to volunteer to present something, then we'd love to hear from you. If you have any questions regarding SLUG or the meeting, please contact either myself or Robert Thomas: Robert Thomas (rtho...@sequent.com) Christopher Fraser (chr...@sw.oz.au) I'm just coordinating the meeting, Robert is the one who oragnised SLUG. I will be away until the 19th, so urgent correspondence should be directed to Robert. If you intend attending, then please send me a brief email message so I can get an idea of numbers. Thanks, Christopher Fraser. How to get to Softway - * If you're walking from Central Railway, head down Broadway and turn left at Abercrombie St (it's about a 10 minute walk). * If you're catching a Broadway/Parramatta Road bus, alight opposite the CUB brewery and walk up Abercrombie St. * If you're driving, approach either by Cleveland St, or take the first left after Abercrombie St from Broadway. The following map may (or may not) help: (to central) UTS | |(to regent st) _| | _ || | | | | | CUB | | Cleveland St --- | | | Brewery| | | | _| | ... ___| |___| |__ WattleAbercrombie St. (one way -- ) ___ ... ___ ___ __ \ || | Pub | || | \ || | | || | | || |_ | | | || | | | -- Dangar Pl | Broadway| | Softway | | | | || |_| | | (to city rd) | || | | | | || Myrtle St | | | || |___| |___ | ||______ | | ... __//Wiley St | | | / | ... _/NOT TO SCALE | | -- Cheers, -- Christopher Fraser ``Remember what happened last time?'' chr...@sw.oz.au Love that ASCII art. This is what people did in the days before Google Maps :-) SLUG was not the first. The Boise Linux User Group beat us by 3 months, http://idahopcug.apcug.org/linuxSIG.html and they don't say they were the first, just the oldest one in Idaho. Nick. -- PGP Key ID = 0x418487E7 http://www.nick-andrew.net/ PGP Key fingerprint = B3ED 6894 8E49 1770 C24A 67E3 6266 6EB9 4184 87E7 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Fwd: Club History
Holy crap, I think this is one of the most awesome email I have ever received. 4 years late, but packed with goodness. Thank you Nick for forwarding this! Stunned, Lindsay On 21/04/2010, at 23:50, Nick Andrew n...@nick-andrew.net wrote: Sorry for the delay replying :-) On Fri, 26 May 2006 21:59:29 -0700, Lindsay Holmwood writes: Although i'm familiar with the past few years of SLUG history, would some of the old timers care to help me out with the following email? -- Forwarded message -- From: Steve Demeo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: May 27, 2006 4:29 AM Subject: Club history I have heard it rumored that one of the first Linux User Groups in the world was founded in Australia. I understand that the Sydney Linux User Group (SLUG) was established in 1993 only 2 years after Linus Torvalds originally created the Linux operating system. Would you have any information with regard to whether SLUG was the first LUG? If not the first where in the rankings would you guess it would be placed? If not would you have an indication of which global LUG's may have established earlier that SLUG? The inaugural SLUG meeting (which I attended) was held on Friday 30th July 1993 at Softway in Chippendale. Here's a copy of the announcement email: In chrisf.742192...@sour.sw.oz.au chr...@sour.sw.oz.au (Christopher Fraser) writes: SLUG (Sydney Linux Users Group) inaugural meeting is to be held on Friday 30th July at the premises of: Softway Pty Ltd Level 2 79 Myrtle St Chippendale The meeting will commence at around 6:15pm, but please try and arrive by 6:00pm. It should be a fairly informal meeting. We're planning on having a few short presentations on recent news/developments, R3000 board project, etc. If you'd you have any other suggestions or would like to volunteer to present something, then we'd love to hear from you. If you have any questions regarding SLUG or the meeting, please contact either myself or Robert Thomas: Robert Thomas (rtho...@sequent.com) Christopher Fraser (chr...@sw.oz.au) I'm just coordinating the meeting, Robert is the one who oragnised SLUG. I will be away until the 19th, so urgent correspondence should be directed to Robert. If you intend attending, then please send me a brief email message so I can get an idea of numbers. Thanks, Christopher Fraser. How to get to Softway - * If you're walking from Central Railway, head down Broadway and turn left at Abercrombie St (it's about a 10 minute walk). * If you're catching a Broadway/Parramatta Road bus, alight opposite the CUB brewery and walk up Abercrombie St. * If you're driving, approach either by Cleveland St, or take the first left after Abercrombie St from Broadway. The following map may (or may not) help: (to central) UTS | |(to regent st) _| | _ || | | | | | CUB | | Cleveland St --- | | | Brewery| | | | _| | ... ___| | ___| |__ WattleAbercrombie St. (one way -- ) ___ ... ___ ___ __ \ || | Pub | | | | \ || | | | | | | || |_ | | | || | | | -- Dangar Pl | Broadway| | Softway | | | | || |_| | | (to city rd) | || | | | | || Myrtle St | | | || |___| |___ | ||______ | | ... __//Wiley St | | | / | ... _/NOT TO SCALE | | -- Cheers, -- Christopher Fraser ``Remember what happened last time?'' chr...@sw.oz.au Love that ASCII art. This is what people did in the days before Google Maps :-) SLUG was not the first. The Boise Linux User Group beat us by 3 months, http://idahopcug.apcug.org/linuxSIG.html and they don't say they were the first, just the oldest one in Idaho. Nick. -- PGP Key ID = 0x418487E7 http://www.nick-andrew.net/ PGP Key fingerprint = B3ED 6894 8E49 1770 C24A 67E3 6266 6EB9 4184 87E7 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
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Yes, that was an amazing meeting. IIRC, we'd expected maybe a dozen people, and got closer to fifty.We had far too few chairs, and almost no refreshments. The main business of the meeting was not presentations on the R3000 board, or recent Linux developments, but rather how to organise a LUG that was obviously going to be MUCH bigger than we'd thought. I got names and email addresses, and set up the mailing list on one of Softway's servers in the week after that first meeting. 17 years on, it's still going strong. The original organisers (Rob Thomas, Chris Fraser, Jeremy Fitzhardinge and myself) are all still active in Linux, but I think I'm the only one left in Sydney. I haven't heard anything of Rob for years; Chris is in London, and Jeremy in San Francisco. -- Dr Peter Chubb http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au ERTOS within National ICT Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
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On 22 April 2010 07:51, Peter Chubb pet...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: 17 years on, it's still going strong. The original organisers (Rob Thomas, Chris Fraser, Jeremy Fitzhardinge and myself) are all still active in Linux, but I think I'm the only one left in Sydney. I haven't heard anything of Rob for years; Chris is in London, and Jeremy in San Francisco. All Softway alumni, right? While we're getting nostalgic, I dug up these floppies from my brother's personal effects: http://rumble.smugmug.com/photos/535088147_ttzMr-XL-1.jpg I suspect there were a bunch of people who received their first copies of Linux from Anthony on floppies much like this. We had a steady stream of people dropping by to swap blank floppies for copies of Linux. -- Simon Rumble si...@rumble.net -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Fwd: Club History
I love how he specifies that the map is Not to scale. Ahh, the good old days of ASCII improv. On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Simon Rumble si...@rumble.net wrote: On 22 April 2010 07:51, Peter Chubb pet...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: 17 years on, it's still going strong. The original organisers (Rob Thomas, Chris Fraser, Jeremy Fitzhardinge and myself) are all still active in Linux, but I think I'm the only one left in Sydney. I haven't heard anything of Rob for years; Chris is in London, and Jeremy in San Francisco. All Softway alumni, right? While we're getting nostalgic, I dug up these floppies from my brother's personal effects: http://rumble.smugmug.com/photos/535088147_ttzMr-XL-1.jpg I suspect there were a bunch of people who received their first copies of Linux from Anthony on floppies much like this. We had a steady stream of people dropping by to swap blank floppies for copies of Linux. -- Simon Rumble si...@rumble.net -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
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Simon == Simon Rumble si...@rumble.net writes: Simon On 22 April 2010 07:51, Peter Chubb Simon pet...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: Simon 17 years on, it's still going strong. The original Simon organisers (Rob Thomas, Chris Fraser, Jeremy Fitzhardinge and Simon myself) are all still active in Linux, but I think I'm the only Simon one left in Sydney. I haven't heard anything of Rob for years; Simon Chris is in London, and Jeremy in San Francisco. Simon All Softway alumni, right? Rob was from Sequent, but the rest of us were at Softway. Peter C -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
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quote who=Michael Lake Sluggers in 1997 It's enjoyable to see that, while some of these folks are no longer regulars in the SLUG community, there are many that have gone on to bigger and better (so to speak) things in the FLOSS community and industry. Very cool. SLUG is a greenhouse for FLOSS awesomeness. :-) - Jeff -- GUADEC 2006: Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spainhttp://2006.guadec.org/ I'm just mucking round down the shallow end of the literary pool, I suppose. - Mick Molloy -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
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Hi all Well I wasn't around in 94 but last night Jill and I looked through our diaries and we attended SLUG in 1997. I had some mail from 1997 so I grepped that and the list is below. This is just the email I collected that was interesting to me at the time so it will leave off folks that made boring or over-my-head techo posts :-) Anyhow it will refresh peoples minds on some names. Sluggers in 1997 Directory: Mail_1997/ 'grep From: SLUG-1997.archives | cut -d' ' -f2,3 | sort | uniq ' and then do a bit of manual editing and fixing up. Anand Kumria Anthony Rumble Ben Buxton Bob Bain Charlie Brady Chris Baird Craige McWhirter Danny Yee Dave Fitch Del [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dennis M. Gray Dion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dwight Walker Geoff Nolan Geoffrey D. Bennett Gordon Rowell Grahame Kelly Grant Parnell Hans Zoebelein Henrik Seidel Henry Kwong Ian Ward James Cribb James Morris Jamie Honan Jan Vicherek Jason F. Ball John Michael Jonathan Benger Ken Lin Ken Yap Luke Kendall Mark Assad Mark Greenaway Matt Hyne Matt McLeod Matthew Flax Matthew Hannigan Matthew Tippett Melinda Taylor Michael Lake Munro Saunders Nancy Pomeroy Nick Andrew Nick Daglis Paul Chau Paul Montgomery Peter Chubb Peter Duthie Peter Samuel Rachel Polanskis Ram Smith Richard Piper Robert Brockway Robert Hart Robin Whittle Scott Howard Sean Jackson Steigrad Ralph Stephen Jones Stuart Auchterlonie S. Lee Terry Collins The Red Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tom Atkinson Tony Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Michael Lake Science Faculty, UTS Ph: 9514 8232 Fx: 9514 1460 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
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Lindsay Holmwood wrote: Hi all, Although i'm familiar with the past few years of SLUG history, would some of the old timers care to help me out with the following email? I don't know if anyone responded to this, but names around in 95-96 were Jamie Honan, Grahame Kelly, Del Ken Yap, Charlie Brady, Anthony Rumble and Leonard Chan was running his shop in a bag. I had the impression that it had been going for a year or so beforehand. Aps to anyone I don't remember. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
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On Mon, 29 May 2006, Terry Collins wrote: I had the impression that it had been going for a year or so beforehand. Aps to anyone I don't remember. I've been a SLUG member since about late 1994 or early 1995. That is to say, I have been on the original mailing list since that time but don't go in for the organised comittees and all that guff. rachel -- Rachel Polanskis Kingswood, Greater Western Sydney, Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zeta.org.au/~grove/grove.html They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
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On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 10:24:02PM +1000, Terry Collins wrote: Lindsay Holmwood wrote: Hi all, Although i'm familiar with the past few years of SLUG history, would some of the old timers care to help me out with the following email? I don't know if anyone responded to this, but names around in 95-96 were Jamie Honan, Grahame Kelly, Del Ken Yap, Charlie Brady, Anthony Rumble and Leonard Chan was running his shop in a bag. I had the impression that it had been going for a year or so beforehand. Aps to anyone I don't remember. Besides myself :-), and a few you already have above, I remember Nick Andrew (of zeta.org.au) and Jeremy Fitzhardinge (goop.org) were there at the very first SLUG meeting, held at Softway offices. Can't remember the date! (Given enough time I could trawl through my stuff and find out though.) Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
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Hi Besides myself :-), and a few you already have above, I remember Nick Andrew (of zeta.org.au) and Jeremy Fitzhardinge (goop.org) were there at the very first SLUG meeting, held at Softway offices. Can't remember the date! (Given enough time I could trawl through my stuff and find out though.) Would anyone like to do that ? I've been thinking about writing about SLUG for my regular column in - wwwlinuxuser.co.uk. Lugger column. If you want to read the present stuff it's in the back of the magazines at http://www.sheflug.co.uk/docs.html Maybe two or three people could answer some of my questions off the list ? -- Richard www.sheflug.co.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
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Matthew Hannigan wrote:
Besides myself :-), and a few you already have
above, I remember Nick Andrew (of zeta.org.au)
and Jeremy Fitzhardinge (goop.org) were there
at the very first SLUG meeting, held at Softway
offices. Can't remember the date!
(Given enough time I could trawl through my
stuff and find out though.)
To borrow those infamous words spoken by Grahame Kelly at the first
Kegsworth InstallFest (2nd Fest) after I offered to give a hand
Come in sucker {:-).
Thanks for volunteering.
I actually thought I first went along maybe in 93/94 after doing a
course at UTS a couple of years earlier, but 96 was the only dates in my
slug folder and I'm not fussed about dragging out the tax records to
see when I started claiming *nix items {:-) plus I definitely wasn't
there at the start.
When did RH4.0 RH4.1 come out?[1]
[1] I've given mine away years ago, along with the copy of SUSE (in
german) that I first obtained from SLUG all thse years ago.
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Re: [SLUG] Fwd: Club history
On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 10:24:02 +1000, Terry Collins wrote: I had the impression that it had been going for a year or so beforehand. The first meeting I attended was, IIRC, in 1994, and it had been going for some time before that. The meeting was in a small upstairs room at UTS and there were maybe ten of us there. Those I remember are Jamie Honan, Grahame Kelly, Del, Charlie Brady, Ken Yap, Leonard Chan. Del talked about setting up mail and news over UUCP. I think I'd been on the mailing list for a month or two before then. I only went to two or three meetings over the next year or so, and it was many years before I got to another. By then, SLUG had outgrown the original room and there were about 150 people there. That was around the time that SLUG became an incorporated association. Cheers, John -- You sleep late. But mornings are nice, aren't they? No. Mornings are horrible, and you are weird. -- Jenny Holmberg -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
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On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 11:15:35 +1000, Terry Collins wrote: When did RH4.0 RH4.1 come out?[1] According to http://www.owlriver.com/redhat_versions.html, 3rd October 1996 and 3rd February 1997 respectively. Cheers, John -- The object-oriented model makes it easy to build up programs by accretion. What this often means, in practice, is that it provides a structured way to write spaghetti code. -- Paul Graham -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
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John Clarke wrote:
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 11:15:35 +1000, Terry Collins wrote:
When did RH4.0 RH4.1 come out?[1]
According to http://www.owlriver.com/redhat_versions.html, 3rd October
1996 and 3rd February 1997 respectively.
Thanks.
So my paper work is correct and my memory is faulty then {:-(.
Hmm,it seems that according to google, there is only two pages on the
internet that list this information. Sadly I didn't think of searching
for redhat_versions.
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On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 12:45:14 +1000, Terry Collins wrote: Hmm,it seems that according to google, there is only two pages on the internet that list this information. Sadly I didn't think of searching for redhat_versions. I searched for redhat release dates and it was the first result. Cheers, John -- Is it any wonder that Micro$oft's smallest product, weird capitalization aside, is called Wince? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Fwd: Club history
Hi all, Although i'm familiar with the past few years of SLUG history, would some of the old timers care to help me out with the following email? Cheers, Lindsay -- Forwarded message -- From: Steve Demeo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: May 27, 2006 4:29 AM Subject: Club history To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lindsay, I have heard it rumored that one of the first Linux User Groups in the world was founded in Australia. I understand that the Sydney Linux User Group (SLUG) was established in 1993 only 2 years after Linus Torvalds originally created the Linux operating system. Would you have any information with regard to whether SLUG was the first LUG? If not the first where in the rankings would you guess it would be placed? If not would you have an indication of which global LUG's may have established earlier that SLUG? eg. SVLUG (Silicon Valley LUG) and BALUG (Bay Area LUG) SVLUG From what I can tell, SVLUG was originally named the Silicon Valley Computer Society (SVCS) and formed in 1988 as a PC-Unix SIG. Linux was first discussed at a SVCS meeting in April 1992. The group was renamed the Linux SIG in 1995 and then renamed the Silicon Valley Linux User Group in 1997. This might give me enough information to establish a ranking and any information would be greatly appreciated. Kind Regards, Steve Demeo Manager - ICT Team ___ Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources (DITR) Level 4, 40 Allara Street, Canberra ACT 2601 GPO Box 9839, Canberra ACT 2600 Ph: 02 6213 7598 Mob: 0400 564 533 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://www.investaustralia.gov.au -- http://slug.org.au/ http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ http://holmwood.id.au/~lindsay/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
