Linux User Group HOWTO
Kendall Grant Clark
v1.4.1, 9 October 1997
The Linux User Group HOWTO is a guide to founding, maintaining, and growing a Linux User Group.
1.
Introduction
1.1 Purpose of this document
1.2 Other sources of information
1.3 New versions of this document
1.4 How you can help me write this HOWTO
1.5 Recent changes
2.
What is a Linux User Group?
2.1 What is Linux?
2.2 How is Linux unique?
2.3 What is a user group?
2.4 Summary
3.
What LUGs are there?
3.1 Lists of LUGs
3.2 Solidarity versus convenience
4.
What does a LUG do?
4.1 Linux advocacy
4.2 Linux education
4.3 Linux support
4.4 Linux socializing
5.
Local LUG activities
5.1 Meetings
5.2 Online resources
6.
Practical suggestions
6.1 LUG support organizations
6.2 Founding a LUG
6.3 Maintaining and growing a LUG
7.
Legal and organizational issues
7.1 United States legal issues
7.2 International legal issues
8.
About this document
8.1 Terms of Use
8.2 Acknowledgements