Membership

[Paul Lussier]

In a message dated: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 09:55:36 EST
"Barry Millen" said:

>Thanks for your prompt and welcoming reply.  In my short experience with
>Linux and the Linux community I have found people who are friendly, helpful
>and fairly gentle with "newbies".  I hope to be able to participate as I am
>newly retired from the NH Dept of Education and do NOT wish to ever stop
>learning.  Perhaps a north country group could be revived and expanded?  I
>look forward to associating with the LUG as I have the time, inclination and
>broadband (satellite).


Barry,

You're quite welcome.  We always welcome folks to our group. Two
things I'd like to mention to you:

First, every now and then there is someone like yourself who send a
very similar e-mail requesting information about a LUG in the North
Country.  There are several of you up there, all that is needed is
someone with a "Take Charge" attitude to begin pulling all the
interested people up there together every now and then for a meeting.

You don't need to be a seasoned Linux veteran or computer guru to
organize a meeting.  You need just a modicum of organizational skills
(if *I* can organize a meeting, anyone can :) a place to meet, a few
people to meet with, and occassionally someone to present to the
group.

We've had meetings in people's houses, at brew pups, libraries, town
halls, restaurants, etc.  I encourage you, if you're so inclined, to
help revice the NNHLUG.  We will gladly help you with anything we can.
If you're interested, I recommend visiting our website and poking
around the wiki.  We have a lot of things listed there to help with
getting meetings together (at least we did :)  And, feel free to join
the gnhlug-org mailing list which is primarily used by those of us
who attempt to herd this group of cats.  We'll gladly assist in any
way we can.

Secondly, there's a discussion going on on the -org list now about
GNHLUG getting involved with some project that has something to do
with Free/Open Source Software and the NH school systems.  Your
experience and insights may well be quite valuable to them.  I
encourage you to join that list as well if you're interested.

Thanks,

Paul Lussier
		 Principal Systems and Network Engineer

     Co-Chairman, Greater New Hampshire Linux User's Group (GNHLUG)
			http://www.gnhlug.org
	   Events: http://www.gnhlug.org/lug_cal/month.php