[TriLUG] Announcement: New NCSU Linux Users Group Forming

[Ian Meyer]

Count me in, I am definitely interested in helping to get this group 
off the ground.

I like the idea of a user group thats based on new users and keeping it 
in the GUI.

Ian


On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 16:38, Lisa C. Boyd wrote:

> Ilan - go for it! I think this is an awesome idea! People really need 
> a safe
> place to ask questions or get training on some of the very basics about
> Linux.
>
> I agree with Jon though - instead of focusing on what the group is not 
> -
> focus on what the group should be - could be - will be. It would be 
> really
> good for instance to set some ground rules (not part of the charter
> necessarily) saying it doesn't matter what people have used before, or 
> what
> they're using now - the group should be a safe place for them to learn 
> about
> Linux applications, not being criticized for what they use now. You 
> may not
> want to exclude anything such as command line use, because as the user
> learns and feels comfortable in Linux, they may very well be ok then 
> using
> the command line to do certain things that are better done at the 
> command
> line.
>
> If you'd like some help writing up some initial newbie friendly
> announcements or whatever, let me know. I'd be glad to help or look 
> over
> stuff for you. It sounds like a really great group to start organizing 
> and I
> wish you the best of luck!
> Lisa B.
>
>
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