Re: How to start a LibrePlanet Group in my local university

[Ian Kelling]

"Wenyuan Jiang" via "Discussion among developers and organizers of Libre 
Planet." <libreplanet-dev@libreplanet.org> writes:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> I am Wenyuan Jiang, an undergraduate at Tongji University, Shanghai,
> China and a new associate member of FSF. I am writing to seek help for
> starting a LibrePlanet Group in my local university.
>
> In my university, there are quite a few students who are interested in
> the concepts given by FSF and LibrePlanet. We have a Club for open
> source software users (Tongji Open Source Association, TOSA,
> https://github.com/opentj), but sadly we currently do not have a
> group/club for FREE SOFTWARE. Several friends of mine have given some
> presentations about FREE SOFTWAREs and FSF at TOSA, and we received
> positive feedback from the audiences (mostly freshmen in the CS/SE
> department).
>
> We are planning to start a small group in our university to inform the
> students about FREE SOFTWARE, and offer help to them in getting and
> using free software. However, since we are not native English speakers,
> we find it difficult to follow the guide in
> https://libreplanet.org/wiki/LibrePlanet:Teams/New, so I am writing this
> email to seek assistance.

We will be happy to assist.

Your questions are probably more appropriate to be sent to
libreplanet-discuss
http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss , that is
mentioned at the top of
https://libreplanet.org/wiki/LibrePlanet:Teams/New, but it doesn't hurt
to ask in more than one place.

But, the basic steps are that you create a name for your group, a page
on the libreplanet wiki, announce that your group exists and tell people
some way for people to get involved with your group. For example if you
have a meeting, you invite people to show up.

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