[Leaplist] Starting a Lug in Lakeland?

[Phil Barnett]

On Thursday 31 January 2008 01:01:37 pm Bob Foxworth wrote:

> Probably the underlying factor is that Linux is becoming a
> commodity product and the handholding (how to get X working,
> etc) ("start your installs early" etc. when people actually
> brought PC's to meetings for help) is somewhat less
> important today.

This is indeed a factor in modern Linux User Group dynamics.

I believe that one of the things that helps LEAP stay together is that we 
don't allow infighting and we don't support putting down other operating 
systems at a organized level. We have helped countless people at our 
installfests with many operating systems, treating the person with the 
problem like a comrade instead of an adversary.

With that said, we're still seeing people come to every installfest who are 
checking out Linux for the first time and want to know more about it than how 
to click icons. There will always be a group of people who rise above common 
knowledge and those are the people who keep coming back for friendship and 
knowledge sharing.

-- 
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are 
putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Mark Twain