Hi Steve/all,
I have not seen anything posted to this Mailman 2 mailing list about in
person user groups specific to GnuCash in the last 6 months...
You may have some luck/interest in GnuCash from the few Linux User
Groups (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_user_group) that are still
active, including NYLUG (http://nylug.org/), LILUG
(http://www.lilug.org/), NJLUG (https://www.meetup.com/NJLinux/), and
several others in the areas you listed.
I am on the "board" of the North Bay Linux Users Group
(https://nblug.org/) and we have been meeting monthly for about the last
1.5 years since the common pandemic hiatus. I also find it very helpful
and enjoyable to meet others in person and discuss
interests/questions/issues/etc.
One of my projects has been to scout out interest in forming a
national/international umbrella organization of LUGs because so many of
the local groups are scattered and not organized into a registered 501c3
nonprofit organization. While that structure totally makes sense for
smaller, all volunteer orgs, if all those independent LUGs had some
organizational, financial, technical, marketing/PR, & legal structure &
support, it would be a tremendous help and likely minimize the
disruptions caused when a key member moves away or loses interest and
the LUG falls apart. Even for the existing and ongoing LUGs like NBLUG,
when we migrated our Mailman server from 2 to 3, no one in our group had
done it before and it was a struggle. Having optional, central support
for very occasional tasks like that makes updates/changes much easier
and provides redundancy/backup for when something fails (like when the
Texas storms took out the GnuCash website server and there was trouble
with the host's ISP for weeks afterwards & the security/https
certificates expiring/not redirecting correctly & some scrambling around
trying to create and use workarounds for almost 2 months in early 2023 -
https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2023-March/thread.html).
The Linux Foundation (https://www.linuxfoundation.org/) offered some
support & resources
(https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo), but they are not a
501c3. The Software Freedom Conservancy
(https://sfconservancy.org/projects/services/) & Software in the Public
Interest (https://www.spi-inc.org/membership/) are both 501c3 nonprofits
and both fiscally sponsor nonprofit, open source projects, but SFC has
not been responsive (they seem overwhelmed with their current work) and
I should check in with SPI...
GnuCash is also not a sponsored project of any 501c3 nonprofit org that
I know of, so donations from US taxpayers are not deductible, but still
greatly appreciated - https://gnucash.org/donate.phtml
Apologies for 'hijacking' your post, but you likely figured out that
with no responses in 4 days, the basic answer was no.
Good luck!
Brad
On 7/13/23 14:38, Steve Freeman wrote:
Are there any user groups that meet in person? I'd really like to
occasionally work with others. Live in Connecticut, but travel to New York
(especially Westchester), New Jersey and Philadelphia.
Steve Freeman
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