<div>I will have to agree. I would hope the LUG's would start to reach out to the regular users and and introduce then to the alternitive. </div> <div> </div> <div>I do know that small business people would love to know that they can get A LOT of day to day resources for free in linux and open source. </div> <div> </div> <div>But the thing that needs to happen is that people need to see these groups as collection of Tech Guru's.</div> <div> </div> <div>If a small business person knows that he/she can a few older computers into router( ipcop ) and there own web server with a few older computers, that is GREAT. They have ownership of there own resources. </div> <div> </div> <div>Open Office on 5 - 10 station WOW VoIP for the phone system WOW.</div> <div> </div> <div>Linux Canada for POS. Man we are moving now. </div> <div> </div> <div>The whole thing is the Linux is here, yet many poeple use Windows and
other Microsoft products because it is easy and well known. </div> <div> </div> <div>It would be cool to do a PC/MAC style commertial to inform small busniss owners that a LINUX infastructure has a low initial investment commentment and yeilds flexablity among other binifits. </div> <div> </div> <div><BR><B><I>Mike Ward <unforgiven24@gmail.com></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">LUGs won't die, they'll change. Installfests aren't needed to get the<BR>average Joe on linux anymore, but regardless, nothing beats having a<BR>well-connected network of people in an area to whom questions can be<BR>asked, advice requested, or just jokes told. A random person playing<BR>around with Linux might not need a LUG to do so anymore, but that's<BR>hardly a death sentence.<BR><BR>Besides, people like me like to lurk on mailing lists and whore out<BR>own own LUGs to them
(*coughwaynestateuniversitylug*), and just kind<BR>of have "an ear to the ground". I almost treat the mailing list like<BR>an RSS feed that I occasionally can post on.<BR><BR><BR>On 7/24/07, Wolfger <WOLFGER@GMAIL.COM>wrote:<BR>> Slashdot is discussing the demise of the LUG.<BR>> http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/23/1357259&from=rss<BR>><BR>> --<BR>> Wolfger<BR>> http://wolfger.wordpress.com/<BR>> http://1fjordaroad.wordpress.com/<BR>> AOL IM: wolf4coyot<BR>> Yahoo!Messenger: wolfgersilberbaer<BR>> Skype: wolfger88<BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> mdlug mailing list<BR>> mdlug@mdlug.org<BR>> http://mdlug.org/mailman/listinfo/mdlug<BR>><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>mdlug mailing list<BR>mdlug@mdlug.org<BR>http://mdlug.org/mailman/listinfo/mdlug<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p> 
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