On 9/18/06, thephotoman<div> <<a href="mailto:rantman_2000@yahoo.com">rantman_2000@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I've recently gone through the paperwork to start a Linux Users Group at my university.  While I've got several interested people, I need some help from someone actively involved in leading a LUG to help advise me on a few ideas for meetings.  Of particular help would be members of the Houston Area Linux Users Group or the Rice University Linux Users Group, as they are the closest LUGs to my location. I'm already planning our second meeting, which will be an installfest, primarily for Ubuntu, by demand of the Department of Electrical and Chemical Engineering, which is currently and quite painfully (from what my contacts over there tell me) on VMware installations on their Windows boxen. I am most grateful for any help you can provide. </blockquote></div> I think the very best way is to order alot of CD's from shipit, then distribute them to any people you see in the university. This is what I do, now Ubuntu is very popular in our university, even the founders saw my efforts, and they made me a spearhead on deploying Linux. In 2007, all 300+ AMA Computer College's around the Philippines will use Linux. The ripple effect is alot of Filipino students are very interested about learning Linux and getting into Open Source. I'm so glad about it, and they are very happy using OpenOffice.org because they can make mathematical equations easily on their assignments, not the 2/3^3 equations anymore. My next step is to be a prof, and make them submit all their thesis project to sourceforge, and create blogs about their progess and make a LUG. Joel