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Silicon Valley Linux Users Group's last use of Symantec
- Etzos 10y agoThis seems like a misleading title. The SVLUG isn't closing, it's just their last meeting at Symantec. It seems they don't have another meeting place set up formally yet, but I see no indication that the group is actually closing at all.
- sctb 10y agoThanks, we've updated the submission title from “Silicon Valley Linux Users Group Is Closing”.
- ferdbold 10y agoI wish there was a way for Feedly to update its headlines when articles get updated... is this a problem with RSS in general or are they just lazy about it?
- thekevjames 10y agoThis is specifically a Feedly issue; see https://feedly.uservoice.com/forums/192636-suggestions/suggestions/3764215-feedly-does-not-appear-to-refresh-a-post-if-the-au https://feedly.uservoice.com/forums/192636-suggestions/sugge... . As far as I've seen, Feedly doesn't really respond to bug reports like this. Among other reasons, this is why I've moved away from Feedly to Inoreader (http://www.inoreader.com/ http://www.inoreader.com/),
- alphapapa 10y agoI thought the new title meant that they were ceasing to use some Symantec software...
- makomk 10y agoIt's not a guaranteed closure, but if I remember correctly an issue like is what put an end to my local LUG. Finding a new venue is a fair amount of work, and if activity is low and there's no-one interested in co-ordinating the whole thing it's easy for the group to just fade away quietly.
- bdcravens 10y agoReads like a facility issue, not the ending of the group. Having run user groups, this is a common challenge, but hardly a death knell. However, maybe there's a backstory I don't know.
- jwildeboer 10y ago"Symantec kicks SVLUG out of venue" would be a more correct headline.
- LarryMade2 10y agoMore mundane than that "Symantec Kicks out all outside groups from their meeting facility" would be more like it.
- sounds 10y agoDo you know of any other group that meets at Symantec with as much of a high profile as SVLUG? They would have at least considered the effect on SVLUG before making the decision. That much is clear. Then it stands to reason that this is an action Symantec is taking at least willing to kick out SVLUG, if not explicitly or implicitly stating that as the primary reason.
- ojbyrne 10y agoNot as high profile, but my toastmasters group meets there, and there was mention that we have to move.
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- godzillabrennus 10y agoMore like "Symantec signifies it's about to go bankrupt by isolating itself from the tech community"
- chris_wot 10y agoI dunno, it isolated itself from the tech community years ago by not being terribly effective at stopping viruses and malware, and it's still making a lot of money. News of their death is sadly very much premature.
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- shiftoutbox 10y agoHey, there is always BAFUG http://www.meetup.com/BAFUG-Bay-Area-FreeBSD-User-Group/ http://www.meetup.com/BAFUG-Bay-Area-FreeBSD-User-Group/ and NYC*BUG http://nycbug.org http://nycbug.org
- Noseshine 10y agoSo now that the confusion about SVLUG closing has been removed and nothing serious is going on, this reminds me of exciting times loooong ago, when Marc Andreessen spoke at SVLUG and then Netscape had buses waiting outside to drive everyone (who didn't want to drive themselves) to San Francisco's "Sound Factory" for the Netscape (open source) release party [0]. I also remember Linus Torvalds as speaker. At one of the meetings I won a SCSI card - which I gifted to the "student network" of my (German) university, a network created by and administered by students in 1994, connecting several thousand students in dormitories to the 155 Mbit ATM backbone of the university. I don't remember a time without high-speed Internet all the way to my room, it's always been there... Since I moved out of the Bay Area in 2004 I don't have any more recent memories :) [0] http://www-archive.mozilla.org/party/1998/details.html http://www-archive.mozilla.org/party/1998/details.html
- davidw 10y agoGood times! I also remember going to many SFLUG events in my time there. Notable speakers included Linus - of course, and Hans Reiser.
- foobarge 10y agoI was at the Free the Lizard party - what a blast. I remember Google speaking there - I won a pair of boxer briefs, with a strategically placed "I'm feeling lucky" printed on them - I still wear them. I left the Valley in 2005.
- GuiA 10y agoTIL that Shepard Fairey did the Mozilla logo. That's hella cool.
- roflchoppa 10y agoIt's probably his most seen art work.
- 24gttghh 10y ago>"If you or someone else claims the November slot, then our closing party will be December 7th, 2016 -- a day that will live in infamy? ;->" Long live the history nerd!
- ipnon 10y agoThanks for the new Bash trick.
- sigjuice 10y agoWhat Bash trick?
- WillAbides 10y agoipnon was probably talking about the cal command in the body of the message.
- sigjuice 10y agocal is /usr/bin/cal, a separate program, nothing to do with bash.
- sn 10y agoSo what's the better topic: apparmor or selinux?
- linker3000 10y agoSo can anyone here from SVLUG confirm whether they have a new venue lined up? If not I can make some enquiries about possibilities in our facilities in South San Jose.
- jhaddow 10y agoWhy is this even news?
- chris_wot 10y agoIt is interesting that an extremely technical community has been booted from their regular meeting spot by the supposedly tech focussed company Symantec. SVLUG is quite an influential LUG. The loss is all Symantec's, though they don't appear to realise that.
- iqster 10y agoWow .. seems there are more people in the intersection of SVLUG and HN than I thought :-)
- rickmoen 10y agoSVLUG's had three generous tentative offers of meeting space, thanks in part to the good folks here. The somewhat bigger problem is SVLUG's staffing, notably its absence. As a member of the Web Team, I've been holding the group together for years after active volunteers found other interests elsewhere and walked away, e.g., Yudhvir Singh Sidhu resigned as Meeting Coordinator after doing a terrific job for years, and nobody took his place. This past January, I gave the group a heads-up that the March 2nd speaker had cancelled but I was going to be on the Pacific Ocean for a month so someone else would have to fill the vacancy. I returned in late February and found nobody had even tried, and March's meeting had to be cancelled. SVLUG hasn't had elected officers since 2009, when the last President and VP's terms expired. Nominations were open at the December 2nd, 2009 meeting, but nobody wished to be a candidate. I'm certainly not faulting people for having other interests. These things happen. (I myself always stressed that I was unwilling to run SVLUG because I already run another LUG, CABAL.) I suspect that if speakers show an interest in giving talks, one of the kind offers will be accepted, but the basic institutional problem within the group is a real one.