[KLUG Advocacy] Newsforge: Do LUGs still matter?

[Robert G. Brown]

IMO this article is very weak; it is strogly anecdotal and fails to deal with
the issue in general. Somehow this does not stop the author from making some
conclusions which may only apply to his esperience with LUGs. I encourage
anyone on this list to read the article, and continue on to the comments (at
least one of which is comparable in length to the original article). However,
the notion that one can really learn something about the general state of LUgs
or their ongoing relevance from this article is laughable.

							Regards,
							---> RGB <---


On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 03:45:48 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:

>Newsforge has published an article -
>http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/12/23/193238&from=rss -
>entitled "Do LUGs still matter?".  It contains some tired crap like "geeks seem
>to have fewer social skills than the normal populace" but otherwise reflects the
>change in LUGs over the years.  The author seems to think the change in LUG
>membership demographics he has seen as a negative (which I'm not sure I agree
>with).  But it is an interesting question, and some of the comments are quite
>amusing.
>-- 
>Adam Tauno Williams - http://www.whitemice.org
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