Re: Helping prepare a user group budget for 2007

[Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>]

On 14 Jan 2007, at 04:26, Dean Sas wrote:

> Thomas Wood wrote:
> > On 6 Jan 2007, at 16:45, Dave Neary wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > The first is to make sure that at least one person representing your
> > > user group is subscribed to the gugmasters-list gnome org mailing 
> > > list -
> > > which is the place where collaboration between several user groups, 
> > > and
> > > interaction from the foundation to the user groups will happen. You 
> > > can
> > > do that at http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gugmasters-list
> > Could someone on the gnome-uk list volunteer to do this? I'm pretty 
> > tied up with Guadec and other stuff at the moment.
>
> I can do this if no-one else steps up. I'm a relative newcomer to 
> gnome-uk but I've been lurking on the list for a few months now and 
> have been looking to be more actively involved. Please poke me if 
> there's anything needing to be done in that respect.

Thanks Dean. I'm sure it'll be a case of just letting us know if 
something useful crops up!

> > > [...]
>
> I think that my local LUGS (Sheffield, maybe Staffs) may be interested 
> in a talk on GNOME. I know Hants lug are after more guest speakers 
> too. I'm not sure what topics specifically, maybe topics like "Getting 
> involved with gnome", "Developing Gnome/GTK apps", "Where is GNOME 
> headed?" would be good, though I'm sure you can think of more.
>
> If anyone is thinking of giving a talk (bit of pre-GUADEC practice 
> maybe?) Getting in touch with their local lug [0] would be useful, or 
> if you're willing to travel, mailing the lugmasters list.
Does anyone think their local lug might be interested in someone giving 
a GTK+/GNOME related talk? If they do, I'm sure we can find someone do 
a talk.  Dean found a very good talk by Peter Savage given to Hants lug 
about building GUI applications with Python and GTK+ and Glade. See 
<http://www.hants.lug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?TechTalks/2ndDecember2006> 
for more information and recording. I think we could definitely do more 
talks like this if there is demand.

-Thomas