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6. Practical suggestions

Finally, I want to make some very practical, even mundane, suggestions for anyone wanting to found, maintain, or grow a LUG.

6.1 LUG support organisations

There are several organisations offering assistance to LUGs.

GLUE:

Groups of Linux Users Everywhere is a user group coordination and support program started by SSC, the same people who publish Linux Journal. The GLUE program offers substantial benefits to your LUG membership, and can be joined free of charge at http://www.ssc.com:8080/glue/free_listing.

Cleveland Linux User's Group:

Own the Internet domain lug.net. They will provide your LUG an Internet domain name at lug.net: your-LUG-name-or-city.lug.net. More information may be found by e-mailing Jeff Garvas.

Red Hat, Inc.'s User Group Program:

Assists LUGs to develop and grow. More information may be found at Red Hat Web site.

LinuxUserGroups.org:

A vendor-independent volunteer project to provide LUGs all over the world with the resources they need to run, form, and work with other Linux user groups. There is a discussion mailing list for LUG volunteers, and other resources. More information can be found at the http://LinuxUserGroups.org/ Web site, or by e-mailing founder Kara Pritchard.

Tux.Org:

Tux.Org is an umbrella organisation for LUGs and open-source software development projects, providing a corporate entity, Web hosting, mailing lists, mirrors of popular software, and expertise and funding in planning special LUG events. More information can be found at the http://www.tux.org/ Web site.

6.2 Founding a LUG

6.3 Maintaining and growing a LUG


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