[aklug] Re: FOSS users group

It does kind of go with the territory. Most of us are Linux users.

Greg M normally keeps us up on The OpenDisc, formerly OpenCD, Project.
Although now that you mention it, he's been slacking lately ;-)

    http://www.theopendisc.com/

I do see that now they also have an OpenEducation version.

http://www.theopendisc.com/2010/10/openeducationdisc-10-10-released/

Many of have given these out to family & freinds that aren't ready to
jump ship yet.

Jim G

On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 07:03 -0900, Dale Rooney wrote:
> Mike, looking at the people in the group and the discussions on the
> mailing list, I think that anyone who isn't technically proficient is going
> to feel out of place. Don't get me wrong the group definitely works for
> those that are attending but I think less experienced users would be better
> served by a group with a more general focus. I don't want to stir things up
> by asking the group to change into something else but I do hope that many of
> the aklug members would want to participate in a foss users group.
> Dale
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 9:04 PM, barsalou <barjunk@attglobal.net> wrote:
>
> > Quoting "Shane R. Spencer" <shane@bogomip.com>:
> >
> > > I have fossak.org which I was going to use for that purpose.
> > >
> > > On 03/02/2011 06:08 AM, Dale Rooney wrote:
> > >> I'd like to work more actively for FOSS awareness and promotion.
> > Does
> > >> anyone know if there's a local users group for open source software in
> > >> general and not just Linux? If not is anyone interested in starting one?
> > >> Dale
> >
> > I didn't realize we only focused on linux in this group. Granted, the
> > name does say , Alaska Linux users group, but we have always promoted
> > FOSS here.
> >
> > What is missing that needs to be addressed?
> >
> > Mike B.
> >
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