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On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 04:11:17PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: |
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> As for the original inquiry, most of us never meet each other in person, |
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> but we do swap notes on this list re Gentoo & even other Linux matters. |
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> There's a forum, but the noise/info ratio is much too high : |
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> think of the high-school cafeteria compared with the teachers' commonroom. |
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> It's a friendly place : most of us build our own machines |
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> & are prepared to put in a bit of spare time maintaining our systems. |
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It is a shame that many of us speak on a day-to-day basis without even knowing |
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the faces of our friends and associates. Perhaps I'm just old-fashioned, |
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thinking this way. Notwithstanding, considering the geographically distributed |
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and generally niche nature of the Gentoo community, a meet-up in even the |
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largest and most populous of cities is unlikely to yield enough participants to |
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cover the cost of the venue. |
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We would have to generalise the potential clientele. Perhaps a meet-up for all |
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users and developers of the various source Linux distros. I'm sure that would |
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attract some interesting characters, lol. |
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(Obviously, the current issues in the world would prevent any sort of meet-up |
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anyway, although some sort of physical conference could be pleasant in a few |
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years when the entire world has reverted to some description of normality.) |
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