Advocacy of Software Freedom Changed, LUGs Became Less Relevant
A LUG is a Linux Users' Group
In English based on the latest phk article at "Version2" (Denmark):
Poul Henning Kamp (better known to many by his initials, phk) is a Danish UNIX pro, whose experience in the domain predates modern "Linux" and is more BSD-centric. However, phk very frequently talks about Software Freedom and sovereignty aspects. To him, this isn't about cost but about engineering, freedom, and so on.
His new article speaks about SSLUG and there's a mention of DKUUG as well (DK for Denmark, U is for UNIX).
Further down in the comments someone wrote (not in English): "These initiatives do not match SSLUG's organizational weight in the heyday of LinuxForum (later OpenSourceDays), but at least there is activity at the grassroots."
"IIRC SSLUG had 10s of thousands of members at its peak," an associate tells us, "unfortunately hope on the younger generations are misplaced, they know little to nothing about computers or software and value freedom even less both in theory and in practice"...
Adam Sjogren links to this Danish site (English shown below; original is in Danish):
The way we see it, support groups like LUGs sort of outlived their usefulness (even a decade ago) when it became easier to install GNU/Linux - or even esoteric BSDs - on one's own, based on documentation on the Web or easy-to-use installers. The new needs include advocacy, such as in the site above. The goal is to convince people who use Windows to move to freedom, not to assemble geeks who speak to other geeks about what they already use and love. █