Maine Ubuntu Users

[jimcooncat]

http://ubuntu.ofmaine.us
now redirects to this thread.

Should we advertise it on IRC?

[ardvark71]

Dayylin I completely support your effort...btw I find Maine is one of the most beautiful states in the USA....and I have lived in Alaska and Oregon.

Maine can compare with Oregon? I don't know.....

[RAV TUX]

Maine can compare with Oregon? I don't know.....

ok not as grand...but when I lived in Juneau, Alaska there is a wonderful place where the road ends to the north....about a mile hike to Eagle Beach...the rocky coast line there reminds me of Maine....

My favorite places in Maine

Portland, Maine
Monhegan Island
Bar Habour/Mount Desert Island

a picture of Portland Head Light House hangs in my dining room....I bought it there this past summer.

[jimcooncat]

The coast is very nice, and we like to visit it two or three times a year. But my home and heart is inland Maine, and I find the beauty here in the lakes and mountains. I also like Vermont a lot too, but I'm digressing...

The social and political climate in this state reflects a feeling that there are "two Maines". There's no easy boundaries on the map, but the residents in the more populous areas (mostly southwestern, including Portland) have a different lifestyle than those in the more rural areas.

I sit on the border where I'm at, and look at the rural areas as having great unrealized potential. The people there are either very industrious or disabled in some way, elderly; and quite a few are simply resigned to watching the seasons pass by. Compared to southern Maine, there are few nine-to-five office jobs. Many of us, including myself, commute long distances to have a decent paying job. A lot of small businesses, and I mean really small, one to three-person shops.

[xphelanx]

I'm so glad to see other Maine Ubuntu users out there! I'm based in Portland and I've been toying with the idea of trying to do an install party, but I hadn't been able track down users in the area. Is anybody interested? Can anybody lend an experienced hand in the process? Who's out there?

[RAV TUX]

The coast is very nice, and we like to visit it two or three times a year. But my home and heart is inland Maine, and I find the beauty here in the lakes and mountains. I also like Vermont a lot too, but I'm digressing...

Vermont is very, very nice also...

[xphelanx]

Vermont is very, very nice also...

Yes it is, very green and full of cows. Plus you have the Magic Hat Brewery in So. Burlington. Mmmmm, Number 9. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

[Dayylin]

I work out of Portland. Right now building a couple Ubuntu PCs to give to the local library in Mt Vernon. Trying to track down some library type software to track books and who has them.

[xphelanx]

I work out of Portland. Right now building a couple Ubuntu PCs to give to the local library in Mt Vernon. Trying to track down some library type software to track books and who has them.

Try and see if any of these would suit your needs:

http://dewey.library.nd.edu/mylibrary/
http://dspace.org/introduction/index.html
http://www.koha.org/
http://www.greenstone.org/cgi-bin/library

I didn't think Mt. Vernon was big enough to have a library

[Dayylin]

Mt Vernon isn't but neither is Vienna so both towns use it hehe. Thanks for the links. Some of those look promising.