[GRLUG] #grlug, #grmakers

Jonathan Jesse jjesse at gmail.com
Fri Aug 30 13:57:48 EDT 2013


+1

i've been a bit lost in the past about the conversation that has been
happening in #grlug and am glad there is a separate place to spin out some
of this converstaion


On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd been approached or otherwise remarked two a couple times by LUG
> folks about #grlug having too little a signal-to-noise ratio on LUG
> topics. It'd become pretty dominated by maker topics. I expect the
> reason I was on the receiving end of these comments was because the
> people making them didn't want to be seen as making waves, or because
> they were otherwise pretty passive on the subject.
>
> It turns out there's a #grmakers IRC channel. Most of the maker
> discussion has been moved over there.
>
> All this really means is that the maker topics should probably default
> to #grmakers, so that #grlug can resume having followable conversations
> about Linux and general sysadmin stuff. Are there clear boundaries? No.
> Is the separation brutally enforced? Of course not! (How could there be?
> Nobody has ops...)
>
> Understand that this isn't about any animosity toward the maker folks.
> GRMakers has grown up and gotten a bit big for #grlug, so it was time
> for GRMakers to leave the nest. And there's still a huge amount of
> overlap between the two groups (and there always will be), and the
> groups will always be on friendly terms.
>
>
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