Greetings from the Sydney Linux User Group (SLUG) meeting at Google Sydney. I haven't been to a Slug meeting for years. It is good to see nothing has changed. The same pizza and soda, the same talk topic made entirely of acronyms and attendees who look like extras from Big Bang Theory.
Slug talks are very technical and practical. This is about advanced software which anyone can use. Tonight was on ZFS, with the speaker admitted not being an expert. They then went into detail, contradicting that. Of course it wouldn't be a Slug meeting without a free software zealot taking the speaker to task and someone pointing out a error. Also 85 is often something incidental which is useful, in this case that Gamma was used to generate the slides.
Backing up, the topic tonight l, is a very boring one, untill something goes wrong and you need it. Several decades ago my email stopped working when someone flew an aircraft into the office complex holding the server. It took days to recover.
Wherever you are in the world there will be a user group for something you use, so go along.
