[ubuntu-uk] LUGs

[Alan Pope]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 07:31:04PM +0100, Rob Beard wrote:
> I'm a member of the Devon & Cornwall LUG (or Devon & Cornwall GLUG as it 
> was renamed).  Most of the time the members are helpful and there are 
> some good discussions on there, occasionally there are flame wars 
> though, one recently stemmed from the getgnulinux.org web site, it 
> seemed that one of the members of the LUG didn't like the fact that 
> Ubuntu was on the list of suggested distros because of the proprietary 
> additions to Ubuntu.  His response was that everyone should be running 
> pure free software, like Gnusense.
> 

Every community has flame wars / disputs. Whether it's built around Linux, 
Windows, Toyota Supras, Cameras, Gardening or whatever. People have strong 
opinions and mailing lists are a great way to voice those opinions with 
little or no danger of someone punching you :)  *

HantsLUG have recently had heated debates about one distro vs another 
(debian/ubuntu in this case), open vs closed mailing list archives, windows 
vs Linux and so on.

We have had people flounce off when they disagree with LUG policy or get 
annoyed with people. It happens unfortunately.

So long as the list has a good admin or admins who can stamp on the flames 
when it gets out of hand, I suspect for the most part things go well.


Cheers,
Al


* although I understand one prominent LUG had exactly that issue and is why 
there are now two LUGs in that locale. :S