Re: Starting a Gnome User Group in Chennai, India

From: Pockey Lam <pockeylam gnome org>
To: Shaswat Nimesh <shaw1337 gmail com>
Cc: gnome-asia-list gnome org, gugmasters-list <gugmasters-list gnome org>, GNOME Marketing List <marketing-list gnome org>, board gnome org
Subject: Re: Starting a Gnome User Group in Chennai, India
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 12:21:20 +0800

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

http://www.shaswatflicked.blogspot.com

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