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    Dear GUGmasters :-)<br>
    <br>
    Shaswat is establishing a GUG in Chennai, India, and would like our
    help to provide a domain name for Chennai GNOME and hosting service
    for their new website, would you please give him some help?<br>
    <br>
    Thanks, <br>
    Pockey<br>
    <br>
    On 04/11/2011 07:33 PM, Shaswat Nimesh wrote:
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      id="mid_BANLkTinbYijcSK8hsGjeZtua-LbLxrxMZg_mail_gmail_com"
      cite="mid:BANLkTinbYijcSK8hsGjeZtua-LbLxrxMZg@mail.gmail.com"
      type="cite">Dear Pockey,
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      <div>We need your help regarding <span class="Apple-style-span"
          style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family:
          arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> building a website,
          please provide your help of in having a domain name as <a
            moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.gnomechennai.org">www.gnomechennai.org</a>
          and  hosting service too. It will be highly appreciable for
          us. </span></div>
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          collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br>
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      <div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:
          collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Regards </span></div>
      <div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:
          collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Shaswat
          Nimesh </span></div>
      <div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span
            class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Founder
            and coordinator of SRM Linux user group</span></font></div>
      <div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span
            class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><a
              moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://srmlug.blogspot.com">http://srmlug.blogspot.com</a></span></font></div>
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            class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Pockey
          Lam <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="mailto:pockeylam@gnome.org">pockeylam@gnome.org</a>></span>
          wrote:<br>
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            <div text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> Dear Shaswat, <br>
              <br>
              On 04/11/2011 12:35 AM, Shaswat Nimesh wrote:
              <blockquote id="StationeryCiteGenerated_2" type="cite">Dear
                Pockey, 
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                <div>We need to have more GUGs and Gnome awareness in
                  India. So i want to start a gnome user group in my
                  college SRM University,Chennai , India .While giving
                  the talk on Gnome and student contribution and
                  interacting with different students in Gnome Asia
                  Summit , I felt that students are enthusiastic about
                  contributing to gnome but they dint know from where to
                  begin their journey.Being the founder and coordinator
                  of SRM Linux user group ( <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="http://www.srmlug.blogspot.com"
                    target="_blank">www.srmlug.blogspot.com</a>) it will
                  be easy task for me to get permission
                  from administration for  starting a Gnome user Group.
                  I would like to hear from you what else we need before
                  starting it. <br>
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              It's exciting to hear that you will start a GNOME User
              Group in Chennai, India!  <br>
              <br>
              As mentioned, you have the passion and love to GNOME, you
              already  have more than enough to start a GUG! Please feel
              free to follow the steps and tips from my slide (Building
              GUG) <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                href="http://live.gnome.org/GnomeAsia/2011Summit/Slides"
                target="_blank">here </a>and then start your first
              meeting! <br>
              <br>
              Please also add your group to <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                href="http://live.gnome.org/UserGroups#GNOME_India"
                target="_blank">http://live.gnome.org/UserGroups#GNOME_India</a>
              so other people can find you from our GUG list. <br>
              Regarding building a website, if you need help of having a
              domain name or hosting service, please feel free to let us
              know. <br>
              <br>
              Besides, we noticed that there is a demand of purchasing
              GNOME merchandises e.g. tshirts in India :)<br>
              If your GNOME user group is interested in building or
              working with other companies to provide GNOME merchandises
              (with reference of <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                href="http://www.zazzle.com/gnome" target="_blank">http://www.zazzle.com/gnome</a>)
              to Chennai or the Indian market, please consider to sign
              the "Trademark Agreement for Users Groups" with the GNOME
              Foundation which you can find here: <a
                moz-do-not-send="true"
                href="http://live.gnome.org/Trademark" target="_blank">http://live.gnome.org/Trademark</a>
              <br>
              <br>
              If you would like to help us to establish a GNOME store in
              India, please send <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                href="mailto:board@gnome.org" target="_blank">board@gnome.org</a>
              a signed copy of the form if you find it agreeable. <br>
              <br>
              All the best and do keep us posted on the status of your
              GNOME User Group! <br>
              Pockey<br>
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                <div>Regards,</div>
                <div>Shaswat Nimesh</div>
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                    target="_blank">http://www.shaswatflicked.blogspot.com</a></div>
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