El 23 de julio de 2009 11:08, Adrian Pablo Ali <[email protected]>escribió:
> Che, con todo respeto, a vos y a los que quieren hacer esto, porque no te > armas una FUNDACION o algo similar, no entiendo, o yo soy el que esta errado > o nose, que un LUG no es un Linux Users Group, que vendria a ser un grupo de > personas con un hobby en particular, y lo que hacen estos grupos de gente > con un hobby es a lo sumo hacer reuniones de camaderia, tambien compartir > informacion, mails, nose, pero no lo que quieren hacer ustedes? porque no se > arman una filial de la FSF o algo asi, estan sacando de contexto a lo que es > un grupo de usuarios. > Hola Adrian te copio parte del Linux User Group HOWTO http://tldp.org/HOWTO/User-Group-HOWTO.html allí como verás resaltado en rojo, se recomienda tener autoridades formales lo antes posible. 6.3 Maintaining and growing a LUG<http://tldp.org/HOWTO/User-Group-HOWTO.html#toc6.3> - Make the barriers to LUG membership as low as possible. - Make the LUG's Web site a priority: Keep all information current, make it easy to find details about meetings (who, what, and where), and make contact information and feedback mechanisms prominent. - Install distributions for anyone who wants it. - Post flyers, messages, or handbills wherever computer users are in your area. - Secure dedicated leadership. - Follow Linus Torvalds's *benevolent dictator* model of leadership. - Take the big decisions to the members for a vote. - Start a mailing list devoted to technical support and ask the "gurus" to participate on it. - Schedule a mixture of advanced and basic, formal and informal, presentations. - Support the software development efforts of your members. - Find way to raise money without dues: for instance, selling GNU/Linux merchandise to your members and to others. - Consider securing formal legal standing for the group, such as incorporation or tax-exempt status. - Find out if your meeting place is restricting growth of the LUG. - Meet in conjunction with swap meets, computer shows, or other community events where computer users -- i.e., potential GNU/Linux users -- are likely to gather. - *Elect formal leadership for the LUG as soon as practical: Some helpful officers might include President, Treasurer, Secretary, Meeting Host (general announcements, speaker introductions, opening and closing remarks, etc.), Publicity Coordinator (handles Usenet and e-mail postings, local publicity), and Program Coordinator (organises and schedules speakers at LUG meetings).* - Provide ways for members and others to give feedback about the direction, goals, and strategies of the LUG. - Support GNU/Linux and free software / open source development efforts by donating Web space, a mailing list, or an ftp site. - Establish an ftp/Web site for relevant software. - Archive everything the LUG does for the Web site. - Solicit "door prizes" from GNU/Linux vendors, VARs, etc. to give away at meetings. - Give credit where due. - Submit your LUG's information to all the LUG lists. - Publicise your meetings on appropriate Usenet groups and in local computer publications and newspapers. - Compose promotional materials, like PostScript files, for instance, members can use to help publicise the LUG at workplaces, bookstores, computer stores, etc. - Make sure you know what LUG members want the LUG to do. - Release press releases to local media outlets about any unusual LUG events like an Installation Fest, Net Day, etc. - Use LUG resources and members to help local non-profit organisations and schools with their Information Technology needs. - Advocate the use of our OS enthusiastically but responsibly. - Play to LUG members' strengths. - Maintain good relations with vendors, VARs, developers, etc. - Identify and contact consultants in your area. - Network with the leaders of other LUGs in your area, state, region, or country to share experiences, tricks, and resources. - Keep LUG members advised on the state of software -- new kernels, bugs, fixes, patches, security advisories -- and the state of the GNU/Linux world at large -- new ports, trademark and licensing issues, where Torvalds is living and working, etc. - Notify the Linux Documentation Project -- and other pertinent sources of GNU/Linux information -- about the documentation the LUG produces: technical presentations, tutorials, local HOWTOs, etc. -- Julio Calvo Linux Counter # 46275
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