Re: How to open Gnome Malaysia Usergroup

[Brian Cameron <brian cameron oracle com>]

Also, look here:

   http://live.gnome.org/UserGroups

There is even a FAQ.

Brian


On 01/19/11 10:18 PM, Frederic Muller wrote:
> Dear Mohd Fazli Azran,
>
> I think you already have a lot of good suggestions and pointers to start
> your new project. I'll recommend an excellent howto on running GNU/Linux
> User Groups which can be applied to GNOME User Groups right here:
> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/User-Group-HOWTO.html
>
> You have about 15+ years of people experience in one single document
> about what and what not to do to make your group successful. you just
> need to apply some of the topics to be GNOME specific but overall a
> great start for your group.
>
> See you soon either online or live!
>
> Fred
>
> On 01/20/2011 11:25 AM, Pockey Lam wrote:
> > Dear Mohd,
> >
> > It's nice to see you so passionate about FOSS and GNOME!
> >
> > You can find a lot of useful information about how to start and run a
> > local GNOME community at http://live.gnome.org/UserGroups
> >
> > As Brian mentioned, gugmasters and GNOME.Asia groups [1] are the right
> > places for you to contact.
> >
> > As a core member of GNOME.Asia [2] , our aim is to grow the GNOME
> > community in Asia. We have members from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, India,
> > Vietnam, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, etc. it would be nice if we
> > can have representatives from Malyasia as well! We have been also
> > helping local communities to start and grow their GNOME communities, we
> > can definitely put you in touch with other Asian Gugs (GNOME User
> > Groups), please do subscribe to the two mailing lists [1] and we can
> > talk more over there!
> >
> > [1] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-asia-list
> > [1] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gugmasters-list
> > [2] http://live.gnome.org/GnomeAsia
> > [2] http://gnome.asia
> >
> > One more thing! As the next major release, GNOME 3.0 is coming in early
> > April, we highly encourage local communities to celebrate this big
> > release, more information can be found at
> > http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero/LaunchParty. By hosting activities,
> > it can definitely help to boost GNOME awareness and users locally as
> > well.
> >
> > There are indeed too much information to give regarding this topic and
> > we are all excited to see you joining us!
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Pockey
> >
> > On 01/20/2011 04:14 AM, Brian Cameron wrote:
> > > Mohd:
> > >
> > > Thank you for expressing an interest in setting up a GNOME Users Group.
> > >
> > > Note that The GNOME Foundation has official User's Groups sign the
> > > "Trademark Agreement for Users Groups" which you can find here:
> > >
> > > http://live.gnome.org/Trademark
> > >
> > > So, the first step would be to send board gnome org a signed copy of
> > > the form if you find it agreeable.
> > >
> > > Also the gugmasters mailing list is for people interested in GNOME
> > > User's Groups, so it would be a good forum to join and discuss further.
> > > Information about the list, including subscription information, is
> > > here:
> > >
> > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gugmasters-list
> > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gugmasters-list/
> > >
> > > There is also a mailing list for GNOME users in Malaysia:
> > >
> > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-my-list
> > >
> > > Also, you might find the asia-summit-list to be a useful resource for
> > > general Asian GNOME topics:
> > >
> > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/asia-summit-list
> > >
> > > Brian
> > >
> > >
> > > > I`m representative form Open Source Developer Club Malaysia
> > > > (OSDCMY). We
> > > > are the local community in Malaysia that promote and market OSS to
> > > > Malaysia people. We now to ready to lead the OSS community in
> > > > Malaysia s
> > > > now we start many project for OSS any link with may OSS community in
> > > > Malaysia like Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, FreeBSD, Joomla, Drupal and
> > > > etc.
> > > >
> > > > But in Malaysia i can see we not have any GNOME community. So think we
> > > > better start one and we can start 1st translation project. OSDC.My
> > > > already manage the biggest open source conference almost 2 years
> > > > already
> > > > we call it Malaysia Open Source Conference (MOSC <http://conf.oss.my>).
> > > > We now are prepare to do our 3rd MOSC2011 for this years. Yeah need a
> > > > lot of work to do now. But at least we can make people interest about
> > > > OSS and perhaps we can be one of the contributor to the OSS community
> > > > around the world. If we not start now others will not start. I`m also
> > > > involve other OSS ambassador like Fedora, openSUSE & PCBSD and OWASP.
> > > > Hope GNOME ca help us how to start GNOME Malaysia. Thanks
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