[Tfug] Newbie question
marcia wilbur
marcia.k.wilbur at gmail.com
Wed Oct 4 23:27:07 MST 2017
So, a little history, we forked PLUG in 2014.
In 2016, someone else - Lisa, had taken over the LUG meetings for about a
year. She holds hackfests at Devry. A few months ago, she had her plate
full so I took over again.
I was interim, relieved and interim again BDF(how long)?
Right now my big focus is small local meetings with the huge conference
next October!!!!!!
I like what you said about devs and admins.
obviously, devs can do admin work - but maybe are not passionate about that.
Admins can try to do some scripting but are more systems related than
coders usually.
I have found that some businesses (especially Wells Fargo here in Tempe) do
not even make that simple distinction. I can be both... but we need to make
a distinction here. Developers have different skills. Admins have different
skills.
As a dev, I might use Eclipse or Oxygen.
When will an admin need "that".
I code in bash so scripting as an admin is second nature.
Makes things faster, automated - which threw me into admin work - I just
didn't want to manually do anything.
That's the difference... if you ask me - Mac vs. Winblows vs. Linux
Automate everything you can. Efficiency and time saving. One project we
completed was a esp8266 keurig hack using a phone app to start. We were a
group highly into Raspberry Pi and automation.
I do not want to meet during Gangplank hack night as I think this is
disruptive. We did this a few times. I even wanted to go back to the hack
night area... Just sayin!
PHP scripting is great. There is a lot you can do. Python, of course, is a
little more robust in my opinion.
For printer scanning - did you use SANE?
Good luck with that Windows thing. I mean if it's good for you...
Hanging out would be nice. I think like a meet/greet/drink/eat/hang out...
I'm down with that for in person!
By the way, I think the PLUG people go out to eat after. I went a few times
before things went South with that "We don't care about privacy thing"...
which now that it's popular is something they care about... suddenly..
after years... Just sayin!
> What does "Join the slack?" mean?
Slack is a tool some companies use for their group chat... sort of like IRC
of old...but you can share images and video...
https://plugaz.slack.com/signup
On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 10:04 PM, <techlists at phpcoderusa.com> wrote:
> Been thinking it might be nice to have a mixed (developers and admin)
> meeting at Gangplank on Wednesday hack night. I'm a PHP developer and I
> need to know some LAMP stack. I'm not an admin.... but it sure helps to
> know some stuff. I'd like to expand my Linux skills. I ran Mint for a
> while and just went back to Windows. Windows and Macs just work. Linux
> requires more skills to run it as a desktop. One of the issues I ran into
> was configuring my printer to scan. In Win or Mac you just slip the DVD in
> the drive and in 10 minutes your printer, scanner, fax, and copier just
> works. I do not have hours to figure things out when I need a scanner
> working like yesterday. I'll probably be in Win for 3 to 5 years and then
> I would like to return to Linux.
>
> Would be nice to hang out with Linux geeks and trade ideas, stories,
> skills, etc.
>
> When I attended TFUG in 2001 or 2002 the gathering was about 10 to 15.
>
> Are you still holding meetings in the East Valley?
>
> What does "Join the slack?" mean?
>
> Keith
>
>
> On 2017-10-04 20:21, marcia wilbur wrote:
>
> You do realize I've been holding Linux meetings in Chandler, Queen Creek
> and Avondale for a few years now...
>
> Maybe this is why the attendance is so low.
> We even tried Burton Barr Library, Gangplank, The Queen Creek Library
>
> Our meetings are hands on but we really didn't get much interest. Maybe
> 5-10 max.
>
> I'm on the Linux elitist mailing list for about 17 years now... it's dead
> mostly too.
> Join the slack?
>
> On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 8:00 PM, <techlists at phpcoderusa.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Around 2000 to maybe 2002 or 2003 TFUG used to meet. And I seem to
>> recall meetings around 1999 or 2000 at the Tucson newspaper facility.
>>
>> I attended for a short while in 2002. I always enjoyed the meetings.
>> Nothing like meeting in person as a group. I now live in Phoenix and have
>> attended the PLUG meetings. I always enjoy them, however they meet for a
>> presentation and then everyone leaves. I wish there was a meeting I could
>> go to with my laptop and get some pointers on how to do things like apply a
>> driver.... etc. I think those types of meetings would be fun and I think I
>> would learn a lot.
>>
>> TFUG has always been a group that does not like structure.
>>
>> I think most Linux groups do not meet much anymore. And take a look at
>> the lists. They used to be very busy. I belong to two Linux lists and
>> AZPHP. All three lists are like a ghost town these days. 10 to 15 years
>> ago they were alive. What happened? I miss the good old days!!
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2017-10-04 19:23, marcia wilbur wrote:
>>
>> I was really considering a synchronous meeting online at this point. For
>> this month.
>> Honestly.
>>
>> You can be at your house... I can be at mine...
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 7:12 PM, erich <erich1 at copper.net> wrote:
>>
>>> How late,
>>> are any of these places open? I suspect Summit Hut/Natural Grocers
>>> would have a problem
>>> for us beyond 9:00PM
>>>
>>> Erich
>>> Garrett Weaver wrote:
>>>
>>>> My roommate hosted a music video meetup at Natural Grocers a few months
>>>> ago. They have enclosed event/cooking rooms that can seat about 10 people
>>>> with tables and probably 25 without tables. They don't have a requirement
>>>> on the type of event or group type. However they do not have a projector so
>>>> you would need to bring your own monitor.
>>>> On Sep 12, 2017 9:30 PM, "Doug Wellington" <doug at dougwellington.com
>>>> <mailto:doug at dougwellington.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Anybody have a lead on a decent place to meet and have informal
>>>> presentations? Cartel was too noisy. Summit Hut has a nice room,
>>>> but no projector, and they close at 8PM. Libraries only provide
>>>> rooms for non-profit entities. Fronimos is alright, but it's hard
>>>> to eat and present at the same time. I've been trying to work
>>>> something out with CoLab, but that's a slow process.
>>>>
>>>> I talked with the TEKsystems guy tonight when I was at the python
>>>> meetup and he is interested in providing beer and pizza for us.
>>>> That makes the room at Summit Hut more attractive for a meeting
>>>> place. (And pushes away from Fronimos since it would be rude to
>>>> bring in outside food.)
>>>>
>>>> Doug
>>>>
>>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>>> Subject: Re: [Tfug] Newbie question
>>>> From: Garrett Weaver <wagarrettweaver at gmail.com
>>>> <mailto:wagarrettweaver at gmail.com>>
>>>> Date: Tue, September 12, 2017 6:03 pm
>>>> To: Tucson Free Unix Group <tfug at tfug.org <mailto:tfug at tfug.org
>>>> >>
>>>>
>>>> Caiser,
>>>> I attended the 2016 meetings, but most of the people who
>>>> attended were UA students who graduated this year and last.
>>>> The rest on us went to the Tucson Linux meetup group on
>>>> meetup.com <http://meetup.com>, but I only went to two of
>>>> their meetings so far. I'm still in Tucson if anyone is
>>>> interested in doing another meetup.
>>>>
>>>> On Sep 12, 2017 12:40 PM, "Sean Whitton"
>>>> <spwhitton at spwhitton.name <mailto:spwhitton at spwhitton.name>>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello Caiser,
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Sep 12 2017, Caiser wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > Are the monthly meetings still a thing?
>>>>
>>>> They restarted August 2016--December 2016 but then two
>>>> thirds of the
>>>> people attending moved out of Tucson, so I stopped
>>>> organising them.
>>>>
>>>> Feel free to try again!
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Sean Whitton
>>>>
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