Silicon Valley Linux Users Group's last use of Symantec
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Silicon Valley Linux Users Group's last use of Symantec
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Re: Silicon Valley Linux Users Group's last use of Symantec
#2This 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.
Re: Silicon Valley Linux Users Group's last use of Symantec
#3Reads 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.
Re: Silicon Valley Linux Users Group's last use of Symantec
#4"Symantec kicks SVLUG out of venue" would be a more correct headline.
Re: Silicon Valley Linux Users Group's last use of Symantec
#5"Symantec kicks SVLUG out of venue" would be a more correct headline.
More mundane than that "Symantec Kicks out all outside groups from their meeting facility" would be more like it.
Re: Silicon Valley Linux Users Group's last use of Symantec
#6"Symantec kicks SVLUG out of venue" would be a more correct headline.
More like "Symantec signifies it's about to go bankrupt by isolating itself from the tech community"
Re: Silicon Valley Linux Users Group's last use of Symantec
#7This 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.
Thanks, we've updated the submission title from “Silicon Valley Linux Users Group Is Closing”.
Re: Silicon Valley Linux Users Group's last use of Symantec
#8Hey, there is always BAFUG http://www.meetup.com/BAFUG-Bay-Area-FreeBSD-User-Group/ and NYC*BUG http://nycbug.org
Re: Silicon Valley Linux Users Group's last use of Symantec
#9So 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 :)
Re: Silicon Valley Linux Users Group's last use of Symantec
#10>"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!