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# Linux User Group HOWTO

## Rick Moen

v1.8.2, 2010-06-17

The Linux User Group HOWTO is a guide to founding, maintaining, and growing a GNU/Linux user group, co-authored by Kendall Clark and Rick Moen (now maintained by Rick Moen).

## 1. Introduction

- 1.1 Purpose
- 1.2 Other sources of information

## 2. What is a GNU/Linux user group?

- 2.1 What is GNU/Linux?
- 2.2 How is GNU/Linux unique?
- 2.3 What is a user group?
- 2.4 Summary

## 3. What LUGs exist?

- 3.1 LUG lists
- 3.2 Solidarity versus convenience

## 4. What does a LUG do?

- 4.1 GNU/Linux advocacy
- 4.2 The limits of advocacy
- 4.3 GNU/Linux education
- 4.4 GNU/Linux support
- 4.5 Linux socialising

## 5. LUG activities

- 5.1 Meetings
- 5.2 Online resources

## 6. Practical suggestions

- 6.1 LUG support organisations
- 6.2 Founding a LUG
- 6.3 Maintaining and growing a LUG

## 7. Legal and political issues

- 7.1 Organisational legal issues
- 7.2 Other legal issues
- 7.3 Software politics
- 7.4 Elections, democracy, and turnover

## 8. About this document

- 8.1 Terms of use
- 8.2 New versions
- 8.3 Please contribute to this HOWTO
- 8.4 Document history
- 8.5 Acknowledgements

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