To: nylug-talk@electriclichen.com Subject: [nylug-talk] Linux Users of New York (LUNY) meeting 6:30pm, 3/9 From: Jim Gleason <jgleason@electriclichen.com> Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 04:37:14 -0800 Sender: owner-nylug-talk@electriclichen.com LUNY is the Linux Users of New York Users Group (www.luny.com.) The next meeting will be from 6:30 - 9pm on Tuesday, March 9th, at 55 Broad Street, the premier wired building in Silicon Alley. Join us for a fresh update and inside perspective of Linux World, where a number of suprising announcements have be made. - Jim Electric Lichen L.L.C.---------------------------------------------------- phone: 718-858-4349 fax: 718-858-4242 2124 Broadway, Suite 374 email: jgleason@electriclichen.com New York, NY 10023 http://electriclichen.com President, NY Linux Users Group http://www.nylug.org
To: nylug-talk@electriclichen.com Subject: Re: [nylug-talk] Linux Users of New York (LUNY) meeting 6:30pm, 3/9 From: felix k sheng <felix@deasil.com> Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 09:12:10 -0500 In-Reply-To: <v03007802b302d3f40f11@[165.254.214.33]>; from Jim Gleason on Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 04:37:14AM -0800 Mail-Followup-To: nylug-talk@electriclichen.com References: <v03007802b302d3f40f11@[165.254.214.33]> Sender: owner-nylug-talk@electriclichen.com On Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 04:37:14AM -0800, Jim Gleason wrote: >LUNY is the Linux Users of New York Users Group (www.luny.com.) The next >meeting will be from 6:30 - 9pm on Tuesday, March 9th, at 55 Broad Street, >the premier wired building in Silicon Alley. Join us for a fresh update and >inside perspective of Linux World, where a number of suprising >announcements have be made. Was this started before nylug? Or what is the difference between the two groups? It's a good thing I didn't start NYCLE (NYC Linux Enthusiasts) a couple months ago, or we'd have had 3 groups! felix -- felix sheng ... felix@deasil.com PGP: <http://wwwkeys.us.pgp.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x2CA84A01>
To: <nylug-talk@electriclichen.com> Subject: Re: [nylug-talk] Linux Users of New York (LUNY) meeting 6:30pm, 3/9 From: "Matthew Hunt" <matt@tempest.com> Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 10:15:10 -0500 Sender: owner-nylug-talk@electriclichen.com In response to Felix, LUNY was originally formed by a batch of Columbia engineers and met privately. With the recent explosion in interest in Linux, we decided to make an open group. Some knew us as NYLUG, and we also had reserved the name NYLUG.COM in addition to LUNY to reflect our interest in promoting enterprise and commercial usage as well. Which group started first? LUNY members have been meeting for some time, but NYLUG grew out of LXNY, which has a long history as well. The truth is that it doesn't really matter. LUNY and NYLUG are officially sister organizations, and Jim and I work closely together to make sure that this cooperation is effective. Remember that New York is a big place, and that we want to make sure we serve both the midtown area and the booming Silicon Alley region in addition to the universities and schools. Jim Gleason and I are both out at Linux World chatting up the folks and will be presenting together at the next LUNY meeting. I look forward to seeing you there. Matt Hunt LUNY President -----Original Message----- From: felix k sheng <felix@deasil.com> To: nylug-talk@electriclichen.com <nylug-talk@electriclichen.com> Date: Wednesday, March 03, 1999 9:32 AM Subject: Re: [nylug-talk] Linux Users of New York (LUNY) meeting 6:30pm, 3/9 >On Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 04:37:14AM -0800, Jim Gleason wrote: >>LUNY is the Linux Users of New York Users Group (www.luny.com.) The next >>meeting will be from 6:30 - 9pm on Tuesday, March 9th, at 55 Broad Street, >>the premier wired building in Silicon Alley. Join us for a fresh update and >>inside perspective of Linux World, where a number of suprising >>announcements have be made. > >Was this started before nylug? Or what is the difference between >the two groups? It's a good thing I didn't start NYCLE >(NYC Linux Enthusiasts) a couple months ago, or we'd have had 3 groups! > >felix > >-- >felix sheng ... felix@deasil.com > >PGP: <http://wwwkeys.us.pgp.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x2CA84A01> >
To: <nylug-talk@electriclichen.com> Subject: [nylug-talk] Overview of Linux Groups From: "Matthew Hunt" <matt@tempest.com> Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 10:57:12 -0500 Sender: owner-nylug-talk@electriclichen.com Well, there are a few million people here, and so multiple groups are almost a requirement if we are to educate everyone and provide a forum for those who are already familiar with Linux. The four groups you listed, however, have different purposes. www.luny.org and www.nylug.org are sister organizations in the city for Linux. lxny.org is a great organization, but is dedicated to free software, and not Linux. This is a subtle but important distinction. LXNY's philosophy would lead to use of any open-source software regarldless of its current state, i.e. favoring PostGRES over Oracle. You can read about LUNY's philosophy at http://www.luny.org/ResponsibleAdvocacy.html. AnyNix is a Unix organization. As you can see, the groups are distinct, except for LUNY and NYLUG, which are sisters. There is clearly a need for at least this many! There is also a group in Brooklyn but I don't have the information handy. The rest of us talk frequently. I was just out for beers the other night with Jay, the secretary of LXNY, for example, talking about ideas for their computers in schools projects. I hope this helps as an overview. I look forward to all of us in the community working together. Matt Hunt LUNY President > > At the moment I count 4 groups in Manhattan: > http://www.lxny.org meets 1nd Tuesday > http://www.luny.org meets 2nd Tuesday > http://buzco.ddns.org/NYACC/AnyNix/ meets 3rd Tuesday > http://www.nylug.org meets 3rd Wednesday > > with no conflict of meeting dates (so far). > I have heard a rumor that there is a Linux group that meets > in Brooklyn, but can't confirm this yet. > > rds > >