Meeting-20080619
Table Topics: Please Won't You Be My Neighbor?
Western PA Linux User Group will hold their third "Table Topics" meeting on Thursday, June 19, 2008 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm at Panera Bread on McKnight Road. The topic will be "Please Won't You Be My Neighbor?" The meeting facilitator will be Beth Lynn Eicher.
"Table Topics" meetings are a relaxed environment where we discuss current Linux and Open Source issues. A facilitator picks a topic and prepares questions for those gathered to generate conversation. New Linux users and the curious are encouraged to attend.
If Open Source is a community, then are you a neighbor or a hermit? Everyone regardless of experience level and skill set is a potential asset. We will discuss ideas for contributions to the open source community. If it takes a village to raise a child, how many mentors does it take to turn a new Linux user into a guru? What brings you to the neighborhood of Linux? What makes you stay? Can we continue to count on the same volunteers until they burn-out? How can a Linux user group, an open source software project, or a Linux distribution evolve to meet today's business and personal needs. Ask not what your FLOSS can do for you, ask what you can do for your FLOSS!
Discuss this topic now!
Here you are encouraged to begin the discussion by posting articles supporting the topic.
- Do LUGS still matter? A critical look at the current state of Linux user groups.
- How to encourage women in Linux Treating people with respect regardless of differences should be common sense but do we always do it?
- Ubuntu definition Nelson Mandela said "Ubuntu does not mean that people should not address themselves. The question therefore is: Are you going to do so in order to enable the community around you be able to improve?"