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<http://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
<http://live.gnome.org/GnomeAsia/2011Summit/Slides>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<mailto: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
