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Copyright (C) 2003, Rick Moen. Copyright (C) 1997-1998 by Kendall Grant
Clark. This document may be distributed under the terms set forth
in the LDP licence at
http://www.tldp.org/COPYRIGHT.html.
New versions of the Linux User Group HOWTO will be periodically
uploaded to various Linux WWW and FTP sites, principally
http://linuxmafia.com/lug/ and
the
Linux Documentation Project.
I welcome questions about and feedback on this document. Please send
them to me at
rick@linuxmafia.com. I am especially interested in
hearing from LUG leaders around the world. I'd like to include
real-life examples of things described here. I'd also like to include
more on LUGs outside the USA, to reduce this HOWTO's residual
US-centrism. Please let me know of things your group does meriting
description here.
- 1.0: Released on 13 July 1997.
- 1.1: Expanded online resources section.
- 1.3: Added LUG support organisations and expanded the Legal and Organisational Issues section.
- 1.3.1: General editing for clarity and conciseness.
- 1.4: General editing, added new LUG resources.
- 1.4.1: General editing for clarity.
- 1.5: Added some resources, some discussion of LUG documentation, also general editing.
- 1.5.1: Changed Web location for this document and author's e-mail address.
- 1.5.2: New copyright and licence.
- 1.5.3: Miscellaneous edits and minor re-organisations
- 1.6: Added Chris Browne's material: Linux philanthropic
donations and LUG political considerations.
- 1.6.1: Very minor additions.
- 1.6.2: Minor corrections.
- 1.6.3: Maintenance assumed by Rick Moen: General initial touchup,
correction of broken URLs, etc.
- 1.6.4: Further minor fixes and additions.
- 1.6.5: More-extensive edits, added "Limits of advocacy",
added caveat about conflicting value systems in support contexts. Added
more news sites, reordered examples of LUGs using Internet well. General
tightening of phrasing, greater brevity in places.
- 1.6.6: More small fixes, added Yahoo LUG list.
- 1.6.7: Added formal-organisational pros/cons, "Elections,
democracy, and turnover" section, Web site suggestions, and link
to Recipe for a Successful Linux User Group" essay. Fixed mis-tagged
sections under "Legal and political issues".
I would like to give a big thank-you to Kendall Grant Clark for the
initial versions of this document in 1997-1998, and for trusting me to take
over and renovate his creation starting in 2003.
Warn regards and thanks to
Chris Browne for describing the situation with
non-profit and charitable groups in Canada, his thoughts on financial
donations as a way to participate in Linux and the free software
movement, and his ideas about the kinds of political issues likely to
arise within LUGs.
In addition, the following people have made helpful comments and
suggestions:
- Hugo van der Kooij
- Greg Hankins
- Charles Lindahl
- Jeff Garvas
- James Hertzler
- Thomas Kappler
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