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LugRadio Live 2006 This Weekend
mrBen writes "This weekend (22nd & 23rd July) sees the 2nd LugRadio Live event, bringing together a huge number of top quality speakers (including Mark Shuttleworth (Canonical), Simon Phipps (Sun), Stephen Lamb (Microsoft), Ted Haegar (Novell)), exhibitors (including Ubuntu, OpenSolaris, MythTV, Joomla, Bytemark) and a slew of lightning talks and BOF (Birds of a Feather) sessions. Last year's event gathered 250 geeks from all over the world to Wolverhampton — this year's event is twice as long and twice as big, and promises to be the community event of the year."
YMMV - The local LUG here is worthless, a bunch of Micro$oft bashers that get together and BS for a Saturday afternoon. Zero motivation to have installfests, projects to promote Open Source/Linux, or even have organized meetings. They do have fun flaming people on their mailing list though. :(
It is quite a disappointment compared to the LUG I moved away from. Installfests twice a year, active in the community, active & on topic mailing list, well designed web site full of information, social events after the meetings and the 'Tux luncheon' - more than I can think to list at the moment. As a noob Luser to *nix, they were warm & welcoming while also being so eager to assist. I learned quite a bit from these folks, and when they asked I stepped up and help run many events and meetings for them - another opportunity for me to learn.
I usually suggest to new *nix users to find their local LUG, due to the superb experience I had - but I now preface my suggestion with a caution that not all LUGs are the same, or if they really act as a LUG.