[GRLUG] #grlug, #grmakers

[Jeff DeMaagd]

I thought it was a bit unilateral. One person insisted on the change without gathering much outside input.

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On Aug 30, 2013, at 9:48 PM, Greg Folkert <greg at gregfolkert.net> wrote:

> All I hear is an echo now...
> 
> On Fri, 2013-08-30 at 13:57 -0400, Jonathan Jesse wrote:
>> +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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