From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Mar 7 4:38:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from cs1.cityscope.net (cs1.cityscope.net [206.222.183.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C96B14C37 for ; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 04:38:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ingrid@cityscope.net) Received: from cityscope.net (194.cityscope.net [209.16.49.194]) by cs1.cityscope.net (8.9.3/8.9.0) with ESMTP id GAA09664; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 06:37:51 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <36E27327.D1272336@cityscope.net> Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 06:37:59 -0600 From: Ingrid Kast Fuller Reply-To: ingrid@cityscope.net Organization: CityScope Net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Advocacy Cc: Unfurl Subject: Re: Active advocacy References: <40020.920445784@zippy.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Let me know if there ARE any articles somewhere to read about starting a FreeBSD users group as I am wanting to start one here where I live. We have a Unix and Linux group, but no FreeBSD group. I have a few questions, maybe someone can reply with an answer: Does the group have to be registered with the state as a non-profit now or can I just start having meetings and then once we get some active support do it. Any input from the more established User groups on getting started or maybe a "this is what we did" message would be great!!! "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > > [directed just to -advocacy] > > > Two years ago I lived in Tucson,AZ. After a few newsgroup posts > > and a meeting or two we had a really great group going. Today they > > have over 130 members. In January, after moving to Seattle, WA I > > posted a request to various newsgroups and mailing lists to see if > > there was any interest in a Seattle area users group. Now, two > > months later, the group is getting ready for it's second meeting > > and has 25 people on the mailing list. Some of these people are > > newbies that are getting their "mother's milk" from others on the > > list. Some of them might have given up without that initial boost. > > Wow, that's a nice little "success story" there - any chance of > getting an article on "how to start your own user group" for the > mythical and much-rumored issue #3 of the FreeBSD Newsletter? :) > > - Jordan > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message *********************************************************** Ingrid Kast Fuller (ingrid@cityscope.net) CityScope Computer Services Since 1984 CityScope Net (http://www.cityscope.net) 1(713)477-6161 109 West Southmore, Pasadena, TX 77502-1001 *********************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message