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On Fri, 26 Sep 2025, Roland Tarver via list wrote:
I might go for the online option; given I live in Scotland now. That and the fact I cannot comprehend Scottish lug members hahaha 😜😂 (juuust kidding. Scott’s are ace!)
Aye, but urn't ye up in teuchter land? Nae wunder ye canny hear the lingo. So basically, away an' bile yer heed, pal! :-)
But dinnay fash; there is #scotlug on IRC but its very quiet these days. Seems to be based in Glasgow but they have not had any meet-ups for years now.
Scotland suffers the same issues as Devon/Cornwall - population density is essentially zero. Large areas of wilderness (far more in Scotland than D&C) and few cities. The cities do have a "buzz" about them with hackspaces and what not but unless you live there, there is not a lot going on.
Edinburgh hackspace (Now called Hacklab AIUI) costs £35 a month for membership too... It's over an hour from me and parking is rubbish. The train would work, but that's 1.5 hours (half hour drive to the station) then a bus-ride, so that plus the membership fees puts it firmly out of reach for me.
Personally I feel that by (re) creating a LUG specific thing you'll end up preaching to the converted. Highly unlikely to get new interest these days.
Anyway, 2025 is the year of Linux on the Desktop, isn't it? Some are claiming up to 6% although I feel that's a bit high.
If I could, I'd concentrate on regular Tech Meet/Jam/Hub/Space, "Mens Shed", whatever you want to call it these days. Then you can cover a broad spectrum. Downside is finding a location - and it's great the city folks to promote their rinky dinky little lab in the library but for anyone outside the city it's stupidly hard to get to. I really did enjoy the Paignton meet-ups. The shoreline cafe then the library, then the Plymouth meets. Sometimes it's nice to meet real live people esepcially when it seemed that the world turned against you.
And not everyone is interested in open source either - I've almost totally gone off the idea because when I was an open source developer & contributor "the community" abused my good will and refused to help me when I needed help. So now I'm just a user, not a contributor and if anyone wants my old projects (which I still maintain but not under any sort of OS license) they can pay for for them. (Which they do)
Cheers, Gordon
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