Dear Shaswat,
On 04/11/2011 12:35 AM, Shaswat
Nimesh wrote:
Dear Pockey,
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 (
www.srmlug.blogspot.com)
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.
It's exciting to hear that you
will start a GNOME User Group in
Chennai, India!
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)
here and
then start your first meeting!
Please also add your group to
http://live.gnome.org/UserGroups#GNOME_India
so other people can find you
from our GUG list.
Regarding building a website, if
you need help of having a domain
name or hosting service, please
feel free to let us know.
Besides, we noticed that there
is a demand of purchasing GNOME
merchandises e.g. tshirts in
India :)
If your GNOME user group is
interested in building or
working with other companies to
provide GNOME merchandises (with
reference of
http://www.zazzle.com/gnome)
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:
http://live.gnome.org/Trademark
If you would like to help us to
establish a GNOME store in
India, please send
board gnome org
a signed copy of the form if you
find it agreeable.
All the best and do keep us
posted on the status of your
GNOME User Group!
Pockey
Regards,
Shaswat Nimesh
