Re: [gugmasters] Starting a Gnome User Group in Chennai, India

[Frederic Muller <fredm gnome org>]

Hi!

I would recommend to start with chennai.gnome.org and see how the group 
matures. It would not be a good thing to start buying domain names to 
anyone requesting and not getting GUGs meeting or doing anything much.

Likewise Shaswat should register to the GUGmasters mailing list and do 
the request in person.

Last but not least it would be useful to know what CMS the Chennai GUG 
has decided to use. GUGs are not online websites/blogs but people who 
meet in person and agree on doing stuff together.

disclaimer: I am not part of the sysadmin team and have no idea about 
requirements or what the GNOME Foundation can exactly offer. My 
perspective is that the more detailed a request is the more likely it 
will end up being accepted and processed.

Fred


On 04/11/2011 07:40 PM, Pockey Lam wrote:
> Dear GUGmasters :-)
>
> Shaswat is establishing a GUG in Chennai, India, and would like our help
> to provide a domain name for Chennai GNOME and hosting service for their
> new website, would you please give him some help?
>
> Thanks,
> Pockey
>
> On 04/11/2011 07:33 PM, Shaswat Nimesh wrote:
> > Dear Pockey,
> >
> > We need your help regarding building a website, please provide your
> > help of in having a domain name as www.gnomechennai.org
> > <http://www.gnomechennai.org> and hosting service too. It will be
> > highly appreciable for us.
> >
> > Regards
> > Shaswat Nimesh
> > Founder and coordinator of SRM Linux user group
> > http://srmlug.blogspot.com
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Pockey Lam <pockeylam gnome org
> > <mailto:pockeylam gnome org>> wrote:
> >
> >     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 <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
> > >     Regards,
> > >     Shaswat Nimesh
> > >     http://www.shaswatflicked.blogspot.com
>
>
>
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