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
