Hello Guys:  Definitely interested.  It has been a while.  I would like to meet in OP at the Library however.  I do now live in Lawrence, so KC is a bit far to travel for me.

One thing that I am really into is gaming on Linux (this has gotten so much better in the last year)!  Can you believe it? There is talk of Linux being at 9% usage for day to day tasks!! This means that there are lots of people who would benefit from our group that are still really new to our community.  

I personally have been on Linux as my main system for a few years now.  Of course, I used UNIX and FreeBSD professionally and currently run Fedora (43) on a 5 year old Dell Workstation with a borrowed NVIDIA 4060 GPU.  The fact that my Dell 3630 feels "zippy" is testament to how even a "potato" can be a very useful daily driver.  FYI, it is only a 4 core, 4 thread I7 with 32GB of RAM.  But it runs Steam quite well and I use it for development purposes using C++, Rust, Python, TypeScript and other languages.  I recently even put a full graphics suite on it without Adobe being part of it.  There is so much to share regarding my own journey.

Let's nail something down and meet up again.  For me the meetings were part of the fun, but the meeting after the meeting was where friendships were forged!

Sorry for the novel of a post, but it is great if we can get everything going again!

Thanks guys,
J. Mike Needham


Kind Regards,

John Michael Needham


On Mon, Jan 12, 2026, 1:24 PM Jeff G <kclug.org@forge.name> wrote:
I'm cool for a meeting!

On 2026-01-12 13:07, Jonathan Hale wrote:
> I'd suggest maybe the KC Library branch just south of the Plaza may be
> better as it has better (easier) parking than the Downtown KCMO one..
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brent Kirkpatrick <brentk@midwaytrucks.com>
> Sent: Jan 12, 2026 12:12 PM
> To: Gilmore, Steve <Steve.Gilmore@garmin.com>, kclug@kclug.org
> <kclug@kclug.org>
> Subject: RE: Anyone up for a meetup?
>
> I’d be interested.  I live in Lee’s Summit but would be willing to
> drive downtown or to KS for a meetup.
>
> From: Gilmore, Steve <Steve.Gilmore@garmin.com>
> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2026 12:05 PM
> To: kclug@kclug.org
> Subject: Anyone up for a meetup?
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> It’s been a while, and I’ve been meaning to reconnect and check in
> with the group. Would anyone be interested in restarting meetups for
> the KC Linux Users Group?
>
> I’d be happy to help get things going again and could even host a
> meetup. I’m located in the Blue Springs area, but I’m open to
> ideas on format, location, and timing.
>
> If folks are worried about meetings getting stale, I’m also willing
> to put together a short presentation or discussion to spark
> conversation. A few ideas that come to mind:
>
>       * Running LLMs locally with vLLM
>       * Ansible tips, tricks, and more advanced usage
>       * “We’re (probably) all still noobs at Git” (a judgment-free
> discussion)
>       * The wonderful blasphemy that is the Xonsh shell
>
> This doesn’t need to be formal, just a chance to get together, share
> what we’re working on, and rebuild some momentum. If you’re
> interested, reply here and let’s see what kind of interest we have.
>
> Looking forward to hearing from you,
>
> Steve G
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