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Re: Starting a Gnome User Group in Chennai, India

Hello Shashwat,

On 4 May 2011 17:54, Shaswat Nimesh <shaw1337 gmail com> wrote:
Dear Chandni,

As i am busy these days with my college exams so aint getting enough time for it. Once I am done, will�accomplish our first few goals of setting up Gnome user group in chennai. Below�are my initial goals for this summer.�

>Creating a webpage www.chennai.gnome.org and mailing list.�
>Officially starting the Gnome user group in our college, then connecting with other user groups in chennai.
>Starting Gnome activities, inviting potential speakers and enthusiastic people who can contribute to it.
  • You should create Google groups for keeping people updated about the latest advancements and mass mailing all round the year.
  • Make a cool list of topics that you'll be covering at each get together and plan a theme or basic idea for each meetup.
  • You can also at times, invite an established FOSS identity which might not necessarily be part of GNOME and can get cool ideas to implement in GNOME from him or her.
  • You can definitely slowly incorporate hack-fests and documentation-fests as theme ideas provided you find people capable to take part in those.
  • Initially you may need to train a bunch of volunteers who can take care of introducing GNOME and GUG to large groups of people. They should better be clear, confident and convincing.
  • You will also need a group of technically trained people(or train them) who can identify and train potential contributors.
  • Do something that people can take back home with wellness in mind. Definitely keep some computers on which people can experience GNOME and maybe distribute a free GNOME3 CD to each member in the first get together and note their first response and suggestions to improve GNOME.
  • Keep in mind that part of the group is to involve new users and contributors and most of them might be having no idea of what GNOME is all about so you and your volunteers need to be patient in �handling them.
  • Never forget the GNOME Code of Conduct.

Well this is all I can think of atm. It might contain some�ideas that look�weird to you so ultimately it's you who has to decide what is to be implemented. Hope this helps.

Good luck for exams.

Regards,
Chandni

�

Please feel free edit the above list.

Regards,
Shaswat Nimesh
http://shaswatflicked.blogspot.com

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Chandni Verma <chandniverma2112 gmail com> wrote:
Dear Shashwat,

I have you connected via Facebook too. Do feel free to contact me for any help or suggestion I can provide. I'll be happy to be able to help you in any way I can.

Regards,
Chandni

On 4 May 2011 12:50, Chandni Verma <chandniverma2112 gmail com> wrote:
Thanks Shashwat for the cool job!

Pockey, just to note, I am based in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh which is quite far off Chennai, Tamil Nadu. I'll help in spreading the word though. :)


On 4 May 2011 08:24, Pockey Lam <pockeylam gnome org> wrote:
On 05/04/2011 02:57 AM, Shaswat Nimesh wrote:
Dear pockey,

We have decided to start Chennai Gnome user group from the month of July 2011 :). As the semester is going to end we are not able to give sufficient time for this because of some official problems. In between the summer holidays I will establish the www.chennai.gnome.org webpage and the mailing list too.

Hi Shaswat,

It's really a great news for GNOME! I think Chandni is based in Chennai too, I am sure she will be more than happy to help establish the Chennai GNOME User Group together with you! I copied her in this email. Do update us the status regularly :) Have fun and all the best!

Pockey



Cheers,
Shaswat Nimesh

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Pockey Lam <pockeylam gnome org> wrote:
Great! as i mentioned:
All the best!
Pockey



On 04/11/2011 08:06 PM, Shaswat Nimesh wrote:
Awesome :) :) Its more than enough for us . And what about hosting the website ? :)

Regards�
Shaswat Nimesh�

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Pockey Lam <pockeylam gnome org> wrote:
Hi shaswat,

is it okay the domain name is: chennai.gnome.org� ? as it will be free for us to give you this name :)

Pockey


On 04/11/2011 07:33 PM, Shaswat Nimesh wrote:
Dear Pockey,

We need your help regarding �building a website, please provide your help of in having a domain name as www.gnomechennai.org and �hosting service too. It will be highly appreciable for us.�

Regards�
Shaswat Nimesh�
Founder and�coordinator of SRM Linux user group

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On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Pockey Lam <pockeylam gnome org> wrote:
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












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