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Welcome to Linux.com's Linux Users Group (LUG) Resource Project. The LUG staff at Linux.com are working to develop the ultimate resource site for LUGs to use, read, and participate. Our goal is to help unite LUGs from all over the world to make it easier to spread the word of Linux to users everywhere. If you are interested in this project, or would just like to make a comment about the site, feel free to contact the Linux.com LUG Project Manager Kara Pritchard, via email.

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Volunteer Positions for LUGs on Linux.com

LUG Area Representatives LUG HOWTO Coordinator LUG HOWTO Authors/Maintainers IRC LUG bot coder IRC-LUG Moderator IRC-LUG Coordinator LUG On-line Resource Coordinator LUG On-line Resource Author/developers LUG Reporters/Columnists LUG Consultants All these positions and more are available on the lugs.linux.com staff. If you're interested, or want more information, please email kara@linux.com. Or volunteer directly on the Volunteers page for linux.com.

LUG News

Daily News 10/06/1999 Mr LUG First Time Poster! See Ian's question about LUGs on the Ask Mr LUG page here and Mr LUG's answer! If you have a general question about running a Linux User Group, or perhaps a complicated one! Please contact mrlug@linux.com. Any Atlanta Area LUGgers? 10/05/1999 MRI-IT A gal contacted me today, letting me know that an Internet startup company in Atlanta is looking for some linux employees to do things like testing strategy and specifications, design integrity, integration, application and system testing. Of course, knowledge of Linux and Apache is preferred. And it's a casual work environment ;-) For $40-$50, it sounds good to me! Send your resume to Julie Sisson jsisson@mri-it.com. Linux.com is working on developing a Linux Jobs project. If you're interested in working on such a section, drop Dean a note, or visit the volunteer page. Congrats to Miguel Louro! 10/05/1999 Red Hat Congrats Miguel! Miguel won Red Hat's ALS Desktop contest! He had a very interesting design featuring an eerie combination of black, white, greys and blue, taking advantage of the translucent properties of his xterms, allowing the features of a female face (Laura Croft?) to consume the background. Go have a look as his desktop here.

Featured Article

Running an Effective LUG Meeting Deepak Saxena Running an Effective LUG Meeting One of the problems that all LUGs have to deal with is how to effectively run a meeting. You have a given finite amount of time in which to get through all your topics. As many have experienced, meetings often take more time than initially allocated and sometimes you don't accomplish everything you wanted to even with the extra time. This can alienate first time visitors or those who have just recently joined the LUG because it looks to them that the LUG organizers do not have things under control. So how do you solve this? Some would say that it's not possible: Whenever you get a large enough group of people together to discuss a topic, you will always end up getting into tangential topics and spend most of your time on these instead of the original issue at hand. I disagree and will present several tips to help make your LUG meetings run smoother, remain within the allotted time, and keep people interested in coming back. Some of these things are too formal for an informal get together such as a small LUG, but as a LUG grows in membership, it is necessary to follow some procedure or face the consequence of utter chaos and dwindling membership. These suggestions are primarily aimed at meetings in which LUG members or vendor representatives are presenting on a given topic. If you are having a installfest or open discussion meeting, things should be run somewhat differently, though some of these tips may still apply. Read More