Re: [tlug] Re: Happy New Year

[bofh@example.com]

Akemashite Omedetou!

I'm one of the long-term lurkers - I've been subscribed
to the list since moving to Japan in January of 1997.
I was never able to go to the meetings because they were
always on Friday nights and my martial arts training has
priority. I did get together with the Tsukuba 'branch'
one time at a beer garden at Tsukuba center back when I
was doing consulting work out there.

One reason that I haven't contributed to the list much
was because I feel my *nix ability is quite low compared
to most of the regulars, so I've contented myself with browsing
and picking through interesting topics as they have arisen
- selfish, yes, I know... :), but I was initially one of those
people who didn't RTFM that much, largely because TFM was
a bit obtuse for my newbie brain. A lot of reading over the
last 7 years has changed that somewhat, but I'm still
learning...

My company could possibly provide space for a meeting, albeit very
small meeting space - our office space will only seat about
10 people. If anyone wants a 'puchi' meeting, let me know. :)
As far as hiring sysadmins go... not right now, but perhaps
in the future... In the meantime, we're very hungry for Java
and C++ programmers!! (resumes gladly accepted)

Here's to a great new year for TLUG!
'kotoyoro'...

Shawn



> >>Hmm...  It seems I joined this group too late.  Everybody's gone now...
> 
> It tends to seem that way.  There was a time when 60 or more people would
> come to a tech meeting and a nomikai would see 30.  TLUG went through
> some difficult politcal times and many of the long-time core members
> evetually through up their hands in disgust and left because of an influx
> of the new breed of newbie- the kind that say "I don't want to read the
> documentation or figure it out for myself.  I tried Linux, so you *owe*
> it to me to hold my hand, wipe my butt, and anything else I may require
> as I run Linux - and while those particular troublemakers and their
> shortsighted supporters who opposed muzzling them were dealt with and they
> lost the battle for control of TLUG, the damage was done.  Those who
> left have never returned, and they were our best and brightest.
> 
> They could return now in safety, but I don't think any of them ever will.
> If they are lurking, none of them has told me about it.
> 
> If TLUG could find a corporate sponsor to provide meeting space and all,
> it's possible that something like those glory days could return, if
> there were TLUGgers willing to put in the large amount of time that
> such a thing requires.  Such a sponsor would be difficult to find now,
> I think, and it would be even more difficult to find a lot of people
> who both could and would put in all those hours of setup for a meeting,
> and such. 
> 
> It was pretty great stuff, though, and I'm glad I was there to see it.
> The "cross-platform Linux meeting" was especially cool.  I think there
> were at least half a dozen architectures represented, including an
> Amiga (although I think that may have been running NetBSD, not Linux).
> Not many people still in TLUG were there back then.  There was me, Jim T.,
> Ayako, Albeto I think (Alberto, are you still out there?).  Anybody else
> I'm forgetting?  That was in 1998, IIRC, so we've had a really huge
> membership turnover since then.
> 
> Dang, all this really makes me wish I was back in Japan.  Anybody need
> a sysadmin? ;-)
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> 
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