“Suddenly, the end of my year as President of the Austin LUG has
arrived. I presided over forty-nine meetings of the LUG, because
with the exception of Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years, we
met every Thursday. I wonder, what did I, or the other members,
really gain from those meetings?“There were only a handful of presentations. One was on a
development project, peless, started one of our members, Paul
Elliot. The discussion of the project itself was interesting, but
so were the details of making it a full-fledged open source project
with a homepage, version control, and input from other
programmers…”
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