<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div dir="ltr"> of some folks who post here, my primary interest is in learning as much as I can about, you guessed it, LINUX.<br>
So, howzaboutit? If some folks wish to beat each other about the head and shoulders in a virtual world, why not go pick an open field and go at it for real instead of wasting our collective in-boxes with non-linux trivia?</div>
</blockquote><div><br>(sorry for the double send. Gmail screwed up my list post)<br><br> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">A Linux Users Group I don't believe is a group of people with 1</span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">specific topic being Linux. I believe it is a Social group that<br>connects us with people who have passion and desire for technologies<br>such as Linux, Open Source, and other topics that people like *us* are<br>
concerned about. Like the BMW motorcycle group. Do you really think<br>they sit around talking about BMW motorcycles? No, the come together<br>because of BMW motorcycles but the socialize, discuss, and grow to<br>gether as a group of people.<br>
<br> Linux users used to be out there all on their own. Hell, as a<br>subspecies of humanity called Geek/Hacker our very social life is one<br>of loneliness as we sit in our basements every night hacking away only<br>seeing our *friends* in small little text windows that scroll. To<br>
afraid of the outside world to have multitudes of friends like normal<br>humans. Then formed Linux Users groups that took our depressing<br>little sob story of loneliness and showed us that there are people out<br>there just like us. It took us out of our basements and to an event<br>
where we can finally realize just how awesome it is to see a person<br>face to face by offering us a social environment where we feel safe<br>and welcome due to a common interest.<br><br> Linux User Groups bind geeks back into human interaction. Who says<br>
it has to be Linux interaction?</span></div></div>