Kevin,<br><br>I think this is a great idea. I don't actually use Gnome, but I have written a couple of small GTK apps and once I get the time and energy to relearn C I am going to fix a couple of librsvg/libcroco bugs that have been bothering me. I am pretty overextended as far as extracurricular activities go though and wouldn't really be able to make a lot of meetings. What I would suggest is that you get a couple of people together once in a while to do planning and administrivia, then try to procure gnome experts and send them out to the various other user groups: ubuntu, CHIGLUG, ruby users group, chipy, etc. And also co-sponsor one-off events with these groups: bugsquashathons and release parties.
<br><br>Good Luck,<br>Evan<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/22/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Kevin Harriss</b> <<a href="mailto:special.kevin@gmail.com">special.kevin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hey All,<br><br>I am contacting this group to inform you that I am attempting to start<br>a Gnome User Group in Chicago. If this works out it will be the first<br>Gnome User Group in the US, however there are many such groups in
<br>other countries. Some plans I have for the group would be to have<br>meetings and give presentations on Gnome applications or distros using<br>Gnome, have release parties for Gnome releases and have bug days where<br>
we get together either in person or online or both and try to squash<br>as many bugs as we can in a day. I don't mean to post this to start<br>any flame war about the best desktop environment. If any of this<br>sounds interesting to you join us in #gnome-chi on
<a href="http://irc.gnome.org">irc.gnome.org</a> and<br>if we get enough support I plan to have a meeting in the near future.<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Kevin<br><br>- specialKevin<br>- Kevin Harriss<br>- <a href="http://www.specialkevin.com">
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