Silicon Valley Linux Users Group's last use of Symantec(lists.svlug.org)
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Silicon Valley Linux Users Group's last use of Symantec
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So 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.
Wow .. seems there are more people in the intersection of SVLUG and HN than I thought :-)
So what's the better topic: apparmor or selinux?
This 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.
It'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.
Thanks, we've updated the submission title from “Silicon Valley Linux Users Group Is Closing”.
I 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?
This is specifically a Feedly issue; see 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/),
Among other reasons, this is why I've moved away from Feedly to Inoreader (http://www.inoreader.com/),
I thought the new title meant that they were ceasing to use some Symantec software...
Reads 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.
"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"
I 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.
News of their death is sadly very much premature.
Regulatory capture is a much better marketing strategy than appealing to the tech community. PCI/HIPAA/etc makes antivirus mandatory, so no need to convince users.
More mundane than that "Symantec Kicks out all outside groups from their meeting facility" would be more like it.
Do 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.
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.
Not as high profile, but my toastmasters group meets there, and there was mention that we have to move.
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So 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
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
Good times! I also remember going to many SFLUG events in my time there. Notable speakers included Linus - of course, and Hans Reiser.
I 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.
I left the Valley in 2005.
TIL that Shepard Fairey did the Mozilla logo. That's hella cool.
It's probably his most seen art work.
>"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!
Long live the history nerd!
Thanks for the new Bash trick.
What Bash trick?
ipnon was probably talking about the cal command in the body of the message.
cal is /usr/bin/cal, a separate program, nothing to do with bash.
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.