Re: [GNC] user groups that meet in person?

2023-07-17 Thread Brad Morrison

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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[GNC] user groups that meet in person?

2023-07-14 Thread Steve Freeman
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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