Communities at WellyLUG

August 15, 2006 11:01 pm General

Rob pushed me into giving a short presentation at the Wellington LUG the other night. While the turnout was pretty small, all peering over a line of monitors in a gaming facility, I think my talk went okay. I gave a short presentation about OpenSolaris, along with my slides from my OSCON lightning talk.

What I really wanted to push home was that working within a wider community can be an amazing amount of fun. Too often I see LUGs just keep to themselves, help others in the mailing list or through meetings, but never actually contribute to the upstream community – having the chance to work with absolutely amazing people, on amazing technology and being able to figure out what skills you can personally contribute. Not sure if that message got through – who knows.

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