Hi Xolani, Don't assume that it is dead, its only dormant waiting for you to wake it up. First I would contact people from http://zwlug.sourceforge.net/ and make call for an organization meeting for the SF-day.. Find africasource participants (http://tacticaltech.org/africasource) they could direct you to interesting contacts. Plan the meeting ahead, at least 3 weeks, send email to everyone you know, ask them to forward it. Repeat the message often. Contact universities, those are often the best place to start to meet GNU/linux users... Hope it helps Le dimanche 17 juin 2007 à 21:32 +1000, Pia Waugh a écrit :
Hi Xolani,
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hie everyone my name is xolani i am in Bulawayo i have been following the opensource movement for the past three years heavily reading open source literature so i teamed up with a friend to start an open source movement in Bulawayo (OPEN SOURCE Bulawayo) its dead in Bulawayo so anyone who can help us please do we are still at school so resources are problem please help
It is great to here you are excited about FLOSS! To start a new community I highly recommend using Software Freedom Day as a launch event o get people interested and get the group going. Plan with your friend to run some sort of public event, perhaps at a University or school, and try to get lots of young people to come along. Make sure you register as a team so we can send you some tshirts, CDs and other goodies to help make your event look fantastic!
For more ideas on running an event, check out the Start Guide at: http://softwarefreedomday.org/StartGuide
And for more ideas about starting a new community, check out: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Linux_PR/newlug.html http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/User-Group-HOWTO.html
Hope that helps, good luck in spreading software freedom to Bulawayo!
Cheers, Pia