PLUG regular meetings?

[Jason]

How would everyone feel about in-person PLUG meetings again? Thoughts?

[fox]

I would go if I'm here when we have one.

[ssfc72]

A PLUG meeting would be good if there was a presentation to be done by someone.
Otherwise a PLUG Mug at the coffee shop is fine.

[Jason]

A PLUG meeting would be good if there was a presentation to be done by someone.
Otherwise a PLUG Mug at the coffee shop is fine.

I was thinking about that. Maybe try for once a month, but if there's no topic, then have a PLUG MUG. I'd be willing to do the occasional presentation, although I haven't done anything interesting with Linux lately.

[Jason]

I'd love to get more input from other members, not that you guys don't count. Buster usually chimes in but he'd rather talk more about AI and essays, I guess.

[buster]

I have posted into the void lately, but it seems to be a solitary occupation.

But I think I understand why there hasn't been a flood of responses to your request about meetings.

27 years ago there were computer clubs with Windows that people attended and learned, but ultimately they broke up. (I believe Jason's Linux group was an offshoot of one of those.) We had a core of people who were eager to learn this new exotic system.

We explored and created desktops with the distros that were released, and there was energy and there were surprises as the months went by. But the distros matured as we aged, and we, I think, did less distro hopping. Many tended to settle into a comfortable Linux system that just worked for us. I tend to use computers now rather than tinkering with them.

Bill and I seem to have selected Mint, Mike has settle into Ubuntu Gnome (some things in the universe cannot be explained), and I'm sure others have come to the same conclusion about a distro. Marilyn has used Linux for years, specifically Mint. If you like your systems, as Mike and I do, why change and tinker?

It's going to require I think an intriguing topic to get people off their couch and to a meeting. But I hope you can do it Jason.