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LUG activities




On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Schlomo Schapiro wrote:

> > snipped a lot of great SVLUG stuff
> 
> well, critical mass is it all. How many active "freak" members are there
> in SVLUG ? 100 ? 1000 ? 10000 ? Compare that to the 250-300 list members
> WE have, and most of them silent most of the time. Also, how is the
> age/occupation breakdown at SVLUG as compared to us ?

well, the mailing list is around the 600 people I last heard, and 300 more
in the announce list (many on both, so I don't count it) and knowing the
good stuff being discussed there, people from all over the world join the
list (I think at least 3 people from this list joined since I forwarded a
few messages). all in all, I estimate 450-500 of those are people from
this area, 50 are actually active on the list and not just lurking, the
meetings usually putt 150-250 people, peeks were when Linus showed up
(~450) and in the Taos Mountain famous meeting "Future of Linux", where
Intel, and supposedly Oracle, changed their mind about Linux support, I
saw around 850-900 people, some reports said there were close to 1000.

ages are college to 70, I'm guessing the average is 30, 32 or so, and I'm
guessing the vast majority are Unix professionals. our meetings pull in
head hunters and HR people from the many corporations around (surprise...)

> 
> > If linux-il would have done 10% of that, I would have been satisfied, but
> 
> We are trying, it's just so hard Ira ...

the three "officers" of the LUG are all working for Linux companies
(Penguin Computing, VA-Research and the like), and have the contacts and
time to set up such things... Those companies started as private
operations, home-grown, and they answer the need of the market at the
time. such companies will start in Israel soon too, let's hope they will
not be spinoffs from large money-hungry current service companies, instead
started by people such as writers on this list, that care about the
culture of the Linux community too, and can give back to it.

-- 
Ira Abramov ;  whois:IA58  ;  www.scso.com ;  all around Linux enthusiast 
`When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows", people just stare
at you blankly and say  "Hey, I got those with the system,  *for free*".'
                                                         (Linus Torvalds)