Re: [gugmasters] GUG Switzerland

[Frederic Muller <fredm gnome org>]

On 06/10/2011 05:13 PM, Marcus Moeller wrote:
> Dear Fred.
>
>  > To add to Dave's comments I'd like to share what we did when we started
>  > our group in Beijing. We've successfully used those free city magazines
>  > to advertise for such (monthly) gathering. It gets you people you
>  > wouldn't reach otherwise. They usually provide free ads for non-profits
>  > and events and list bars, restaurants and other activities.
>
> Thanks for the hint. I am working for a big university where we got
> magazines like that, too.
>
> Besides that I have the idea to bring GNOME to the ppl besides letting
> them join our meetings. To make that happen we want to give
> presentations to LUGs, Students and other interested ppl.

Well that's a good idea. Lots of groups are always looking for speakers 
and you would be addressing that need. We have started a list of generic 
topic that GUG could present but it's far from complete. Maybe something 
we could work on during summer.

> Another idea is to set up a booth (e.g. on Software Freedom Day) in a
> Bookstore, presenting GNOME.

Last year SFD in Zurich was organized by FrOSCamp. I don't have much 
more information that this. But definitely promoting GNOME at SFD is a 
good thing to do ;-)

> Greets
> Marcus
>
>  > On 06/10/2011 04:37 PM, Dave Neary wrote:
>  >> Hi Marcus,
>  >>
>  >> In addition to the resources Emily sent you, my recommended first step
>  >> would be to organise a small GNOME meeting in Zurich - call it a GNOME
>  >> Beer Meetup or whatever - and spread the word in local LUGs and tech
>  >> forums. See who turns up, and go from there!
>  >>
>  >> Cheers,
>  >> Dave.
>  >>
>  >> Marcus Moeller wrote:
>  >>> Hi all.
>  >>>
>  >>> For those who do not know me yet, my name is Marcus Moeller. I was
> born
>  >>> in Germany and live/work in Switzerland since a few years.
>  >>>
>  >>> I am a long term GNOME user and contributor and want to set up GUG for
>  >>> Switzerland.
>  >>>
>  >>> As I am also country coordinator for the FSFE in Switzerland, so I got
>  >>> good knowledge in setting up and organizing group activities.
>  >>>
>  >>> In the past I already done a lot of GNOME related events (e.g. a
> release
>  >>> party in Zurich, or a presentation about GNOME 3 for the Ubuntu Swiss
>  >>> Team which I just gave yesterday.)
>  >>>
>  >>> So how could we proceed to make a Swiss GUG happen?
>  >>>
>  >>> Greets
>  >>> Marcus
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