[volunteers] (forw) Guide and Support

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Albert A. Ninyeh (linuxusersgroupgh at gmail.com):

> Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 12:22:15 -0700
> From: Linux Users Group Ghana <linuxusersgroupgh at gmail.com>
> To: officers at lists.svlug.org
> Subject: Guide and Support
> 
> Hello SVLUG,
> 
> My name is Albert Ninyeh, an Open Source advocate who is passionate about
> FOSS, Open Source Hardware's, DIY, Embedded system etc. I am from Ghana,
> West Africa. I have managed to set up a LUG Group in my country and we
> currently in a group on whatsApp, for the past weeks i have been searching
> online for similar communities until i hit your website which i found it
> very educating on what you guys are doing. I will really appreciate it, if
> i could be guided on ways to manege and make this little group i have
> organized to be something grater. Learning resources, link and personal
> coughing will be very much appreciated.

Greetings, Albert.

As you may have noticed on the main SVLUG mailing list, SVLUG has in the
last few years had a critical staff shortage.  You sent your query to
the 'Officers' mailing list, which technically still exists but is
vestigial because one of our past presidents made changes that rendered
it useless and almost completely devoid of membership.  As you will see
on http://www.svlug.org/officers.php, SVLUG has also not had elected
officers since 2009, when an election was held and nobody was interested
in running.

Since then, several interested volunteers with no particular title or
mandate have attempted to hold the group together.  I am one of them,
and the Volunteers mailing list (Cc'd) exists for their discussion of
administrative matters.

All of us are a little time-strapped, and I don't know what specifically
you are asking.  Speaking for myself, any wisdom I have to offer to LUG
leaders elsewhere has gone into the Linux User Group HOWTO[1], which I
maintain for the Linux Documentation Project.
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/User-Group-HOWTO.html 
http://linuxmafia.com/lug/User-Group-HOWTO.html

And also this opinionated personal essay, FWIW:
'New LUG' on http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Essays

[1] I notice Michael Paoli opined that it's a little dated, but also
that he couldn't bother to send any update suggestions whatsoever.  I do
update it, but only on occasion when time permits.