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Copyright (C) 2003-2004, Rick Moen. Copyright (C) 1997-1998 by Kendall Grant
Clark. This document may be distributed under the terms set forth
in the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 1.0 licence at
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0/.
New versions of the Linux User Group HOWTO will be periodically
uploaded to various Linux Web 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'm particularly trying to
include more on LUGs outside the USA. 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 notice 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 touch-up,
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".
- 1.6.8: Fixed small glitches. Rewrote section concerning
Linux news outlets; parts of sections concerning consultants, businesses,
and elections.
- 1.6.9: Minor corrections.
- 1.7.0: Caught up with GLUE membership having become free
of charge.
- 1.7.1: Added a bunch more newly supported embedded CPUs.
- 1.7.2: Added more on processor support; furnished matching URLs. Added details about Linux in India, and Linux For You magazine. Expanded legal issues section.
- 1.7.3: Added mention of Debian GNU/NetBSD to the CPU ports
section. Reorganised and further expanded the latter. Recorded Linux
Gazette's move to new hosting. Added LinuxFocus.
- 1.7.4: Added LinuxWorld Magazine, fixed URL of Recipe for
a Successful Linux User Group, which I moved. Added Tux.Org and
LinuxUserGroups.org as LUG support organisations.
- 1.7.5: Added several more embedded CPUs to the supported list, implemented licence change to Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 1.0 after securiing permission from Kendall Clark.
- 1.7.6: Corrected addresses for TeX User Group in USA and
UK. Added mention of C. Northcote Parkinson's Bike Shed Effect. Other
minor corrections.
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.
Warm 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 and
open-source software movements, 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:
- Jeff Garvas
- James Hertzler
- Greg Hankins
- Thomas Kappler
- Hugo van der Kooij
- Charles Lindahl
- Don Marti
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