**Tinker with industrial devices** i.e Raspberry pi and ardruino. On Jan 12, 2017 11:40 AM, "Juan Alberto Cirez" <jaci...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Neil, > +1 on your comments. I belong to that same category as I admin a fleet of > servers on behalf of multiple clients; I also run a micro-datacenter at > home (running openstack and a multitude of microservices/workloads on top); > plus rinker with industrial devices (maker community). on the device side I > run both Windows and GNU/Linux on desktops; plus Android and IOS on > devices. Plus I rolled my own router/firewall based on dd-wrt. > > On Jan 12, 2017 11:32 AM, "Neil Mayhew" <n...@neil.mayhew.name> wrote: > >> I think the issue here is that we’re looking at several distinct >> categories of people who might be interested in a LUG, and it’s hard to be >> relevant to all of them. >> >> In particular, I think there’s a difference between those who use Linux >> professionally as a major part of their day job, and those who use it at >> home on their own computers or in a side business. Those using it >> professionally are interested in servers, cloud deployments, containers and >> the like, but that’s typically not relevant to those using it primarily on >> their own computers. Those people are interested in GUIs, gaming, office >> suites and the like. >> >> For the professional people, I’m not sure that a LUG is the best option. >> These days, Linux is so much a part of the corporate landscape that in many >> cases people just take it for granted. I read that, even in Microsoft’s >> Azure cloud hosting service, over 1/3 of the servers are running Linux, and >> for other providers the proportion is probably much higher. I think that >> people managing fleets of Linux servers are probably more interested in >> groups for specific technologies, such as Docker or Hadoop, than they are >> for Linux itself. Looking through the Tech category for Calgary >> <https://www.meetup.com/find/tech/> on Meetup.com shows a lot of >> technology-specific groups, although nothing specifically for Linux. Linux >> doesn’t seem to be a ‘technology’ any more, it’s just a part of the tech >> landscape. >> >> These professional people, however, most likely don’t run Linux on their >> computers at home, or on their corporate-issue laptops. (These days, >> they’re most likely to be running Mac, I hear.) They see Linux as simply a >> means to an end in the datacentre. >> >> There’s a third, and growing, category I believe: the maker community. >> These are people experimenting with embedded devices like Raspberry Pi and >> Arduino, and developing the next generation of personal and industrial tech >> in their garage, just as was done for the first personal/gaming computers. >> I’m amazed by how quickly this community has embraced Linux as a part of >> what they do, but I think it’s mainly because Linux is such an enabler for >> these commoditized embedded processors. However, I get the impression that >> only a small proportion of these people are also using Linux on their >> personal computers. >> >> Personally, I span all three categories. I’m a freelance software >> developer by day, writing exclusively for Linux, and deploying my work on >> multiple servers in the cloud that I then administer. However, I also run >> Linux on all my personal computers, both desktops and laptops. In addition, >> I own two Raspberry Pis, and I run OpenWRT on my router. So I would find >> almost any Linux-related talk interesting, and I could give talks on quite >> a range of subjects. >> >> However, I’m not sure how many other people are in multiple categories. >> If so, should we be focusing on just one or two categories? Let’s call the >> ones I’ve identified ‘enterprise’, ‘personal’ and ‘maker’. Do we have >> takers for all three? Are there any other categories we should be >> considering? >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> clug-talk mailing list >> clug-talk@clug.ca >> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >> **Please remove these lines when replying >> >
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