After the cull
by Phil'll Fix IT Mobile Computer Services
21 Mar '26
21 Mar '26
Hi All,
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Hi Friends,
The Naarm Solarpunk Meetup has a really big attendance in Feb, about 70 people came, and we got something like 200 people joining our meetup group online. The crowd was very mixed, some folks really experienced with FOSS, and a fair few non technical people really frustrated at big tech.
We advertised our March meetup as being less talky, and more "computers out" to help each other get off big tech. We also have a group of volunteers who will be there going through our process to setup a Raspberry Pi web using serving a wikipedia mirror. We've got a smaller crowd coming to that, it's 22 registered at present, I expect that to rise until the event next Wednesday, but of course not everyone will turn up.
So, I guess the reach out to my fellow linux enthusiasts is, if there were one or two people in this group who wanted to come along and help people install linux, I think that'd be valuable. There are obviously a bunch of us there who can help with that, but there will be a bit going on and someone focused just on that would probably have more impact.
If you think that might be you, feel free to drop me a line. The event in next Wednesday 18th, at a makerspace in Brunswick, details here <https://www.meetup.com/merri-bek-tech/events/313348997/>. For context, people who need help are likely to new to the journey, so it might be a case of helping someone dual boot with Windows if they are a newcomer, or I have at least one person who has been doing that a couple of years and now would like to re-partition to remove windows. If these folks are not super technical, I'd prefer if we offer them ubuntu so they have overlap to help each other.
Jade
Hi Folx,
I thought I would do the right thing and try to join a Linux Town Hall (
https://luma.com/v0loskqm?tk=haWr5A) to see what is happening in the Linux
Victorioa world, unfortunately I couldn't make the face to face meeting but
found that there was a handy Online option (
https://linuxvictoria.org/events/2026-03-10_town-hall-march-2026/) I've
been sitting here for a while now and looks like someone has forgotten to
start the online portion of the meeting.
Do we know if this town hall has happened? And is there a reliable way to
get some questions answered?
Thanks,
Sae Ra
luv-shepparton(a)luv.asn.au
luv-latrobe(a)luv.asn.au
luv-tech(a)luv.asn.au
luv-talk(a)luv.asn.au
luv-meta(a)luv.asn.au
luv-jobs(a)luv.asn.au
luv-geelong(a)luv.asn.au
luv-beginners(a)luv.asn.au
luv-ballarat(a)luv.asn.au
Are any of the above lists needed? In the past all of the above apart from
luv-talk had been low traffic, now even the luv-main list is low traffic. I
don't think we need to have separate luv-talk and luv-main lists nowadays
given the low traffic on luv-main.
I also think that if people from regional areas want to discuss their stuff on
luv-main it wouldn't be a problem given the overall lack of traffic and the
fact that people from the Melbourne area do visit regional areas on occasion.
The jobs list is also a corner case, in the past there hadn't been many people
on it as there was a chicken and egg problem of a lack of subscribers and a
lack of jobs. I don't think we will be overwhealmed by job ads any time soon.
So job ads on luv-main should be fine as long as they are actually specific to
the Linux community (like small businesses or companies specialising in Linux)
not just the typical stuff you see on Seek or LinkedIn.
So any reason for not closing the lists at the top of the message?
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