[colug-432] The Future of COLUG?

[Eric Garver]

On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 11:08:45AM -0500, Scott Merrill wrote:
> Hello friends!
> 
> As you all have realized, I've been pretty uninvolved with COLUG of
> late.  I haven't attempted to schedule a meeting in a long time. The
> mailing list is extremely low-volume.
> 
> What should we do?  Are y'all happy with this? Do you have a need for
> a Linux User Group to help you solve problems and learn new things?
> Are you all finding community and support elsewhere?
> 
> I was approached at OLF about breathing new life into the group by
> Chris Punches.  He has some big ideas, and I'm happy to see them come
> to life.  But this is an eclectic group of passionate folks, so I want
> to start a public conversation about what *you* all see as the future
> of COLUG, and how you want to participate with it.

I lurk the list, but would like to see more activity. I would also be
interested in an IRC channel (or Matrix) for off-list banter - I'm not
aware of an existing one.

As for meetups, I would definitely be willing to give talks concerning
my day job (firewalld, nftables, linux firewalling in general) if others
are interested in hearing them. Maybe I'm living in a hole, but meetups
seem very few and far between.

> Chris can share his vision here, and we can all work together to
> figure out what we want.
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