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Is the LUG a thing of the past?

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday July 23, 2007 @02:40AM from the where-else-do-you-get-cds dept.

tinahdee writes "Linux User Groups dying out? LUG leaders report that attendance is down — but mailing list traffic is still good. Do we still need LUGs, given the ease of installation and ubiquitousness of online information about Linux? Lots of people say, yes, we still need LUGs (and some disagree)."

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local forms yes, by tomstdenis · 2007-07-23 02:43 · Score: 5, Interesting

It isn't 1997 anymore. We don't need to meet up in shopping malls to trade 1.44M discs. LUG over the net makes sense as having a community to rely on for troubleshooting is what makes or breaks a distro.

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Yes. by bjornnlc · 2007-07-23 02:47 · Score: 5, Interesting

Yes. The majority of LUGs I know disappeared in 2004, only leaving the larger ones behind. The quality on the remaining LUGs are top notch, so I guess this is a natural phenomenon that occurs after every hype.