On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Mathew Carleyglug-bom@mathew-carley.com wrote:
Hi all,
Am new to ILUG, but this is not a silly idea. I'm a long-time member of WLUG in New Zealand, and they have monthly meetings, as well as workshops for normal people who want to do things such as try out linux, install linux on their computers and solve problems.
We have monthly meetings,but not as regular as we wish. ;) If I understand you correctly,you are speaking of installfests,which we DON'T have.
The group usually has Ubuntu CDs to hand out, too. I myself order a couple for myself every release, and the time to expedite the CDs to India is quite short - my 9.04 CDs arrived only a couple weeks after the actual release, and, I don't know how many of you get them like I do, but the CDs are very nicely packaged and professionally pressed - especially the latest ones. LUGs can usually get bulk orders (25+) from Canonical.
Probably,yes.The LUG is an informal organization,unlike the Bangalore LUG which (was,once upon a time) a registered society,so I wonder who could take delivery or whatever.BTW,we have CDs Required and CDs Available pages on the wiki where "normal" people as you say,can ask for CDs and a member nearby will meet them and provide them with the requested disks.All this is done solely by private communication,except for the Request for CDs part.
I think there are paid memberships available as well, which covers costs of things like renting out a large space with electricity and a broadband connection for these events, as well as occasional things like promotional materials (handouts/flyers, extra CDs in case they don't get enough from Canonical, business cards) for things like Software Freedom Day and GNU's Birthday. Does ILUG-Mumbai have this also? Maybe it should.
Since ILUG is not a registered society,I don't think we can have paid memberships,because we have informal membership.All the grand plans are on hold till we get enough dedicated people with adequate time on their hands to handle a registered society.
Regards, Easwar Registered Linux user #442065