Mike, It seems that you may have misunderstood mine and Martin's desire to learn PGP... we were both just wondering about it and decided to figure it out that night (which sort of coincided with the release of firePGP for gmail). Most likely, theres no need for a whole group for it, since no more attention really needs to be devoted to it unless someone else feels like learning. Geographical groups are always nice, but probably don't need to be incredibly organized, ie if the gents down near Miami feel like getting together, they can just organize a local meetup if they really want to. Once we get bigger (we hit 50 members last night) organization on a smaller scale, like southern, central, Northern Florida, will be a good idea. Chris <div>On 6/11/07, Mike Feravolo <<a href="mailto:eztips@earthlink.net">eztips@earthlink.net</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hello: I was giving some thought to the idea of creating groups within our LoCo to work on special interests related to Ubuntu, Open Source Applications and the Linux Operating System. For example; It seems that we already may have a "Crypto" Group that wants to learn more about to send clandestine messages to each other. Personally in the friendly environment which encompasses 99% of all real world computing activities excessive security measures are nothing but a nuisance. Groups should also be geographical so there could be a possibility of meeting in person. From the forum postings it looks like people down south are trying to get together. I also know that Orlando is another good central point for the people along the I-4 corridor and the Space Coast. People can be a part of the the geographical and Special Interest Groups. I don't think that the Association for Computing Machinery are really going to care about using "Special Interest Group (SIG)" for our purposes here if any of you are ACM/SIG members. Also we should do something for the Software Freedom Day thing, since it would be another thing to count towards office status for our group. At this point anything that we could do would be cool, there is even a way to start a Florida Team for "Software Freedom". This could also be a SIG within our LoCo team. Peace, Mike Feravolo 321-784-5553 <a href="http://DoLinuxNow.com">http://DoLinuxNow.com</a> <a href="http://WiKi.GS">http://WiKi.GS</a> -- Ubuntu-us-fl mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-us-fl@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-us-fl@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-fl">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-fl </a> </blockquote></div> -- Christopher Rohde <a href="http://veritastic.net">http://veritastic.net</a>      w:   863-686-8900      c:   863-885-1229