Greetings to my friends and fellow NJLUG members. As the new year is on the horizon, with these last months left in 2010 the time has come for me to announce my retirement as the host of the njlinux.org LUG. It's hard to believe how fast time flies. We have been meeting here in Hackensack for better than 7 years. This is of course by no means an end to the njlinux.org LUG meetings. In fact, the meetings have recently shown a good deal of growth with new members attending regularly and more finding us on the web and meetup.com all the time. It will be important that the group find a new meeting facility so  the growth can continue and we can provide our community with a place to discover Linux and the open source opportunity.

So, what we need now is for someone from the group or someone from the community to step up and find a new place to meet. I know it's not going to be easy but it can be done if we all put our heads together. I will be hosting the remaining meetings in 2010 but we will need a new facility for the new year and going forward. I think now is a great time for everyone interested to start making use of the mailing list to get the discussion going and ideas flowing about how to find our new facility. We will meet two more times in Hackensack over the next 60 days but the discussion list is open 24/7.

Cheers,

Mike “njlinuxmike” Hanson