Re: Starting Chicago Gnome User Group

["Ken VanDine" <ken vandine org>]

Good question, do we have any helpful wiki pages out there to get
organizers started?  If not we really should, might help encourage
more folks to take the initiative that Kevin is.

--Ken

On 4/21/07, Kevin Harriss <special kevin gmail com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My name is Kevin Harriss and I am new to this list was just wondering
> if anybody was interested in joining/helping out a Gnome User Group
> based in Chicago, Illinois in the United States.  I was looking at the
> list of Gnome User Groups and noticed that there was a lack of US
> based user groups so I decided that I would try to correct this
> problem.  I know there is a strong tech base in Chicago with Google,
> Red Hat and IBM.  I am actively involved in the Free/Open Source
> Software community in Chicago, I work with the Chicago GNU/Linux User
> Group, http://chiglug.org and I also help out with packaging for
> Foresight Linux.  Foresight Linux is the base for the new Gnome Live
> CD.  If you are interested in helping out, a couple of us are hanging
> out in #gnome-chi on irc.gnome.org please stop by and say Hello.
>
> Also, if anybody has any information about starting a Gnome user group
> or information learned during the process of running a user group
> please pass it along.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -specialKevin
> Kevin Harriss
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