[GNC] user groups that meet in person?

[Brad Morrison]

Hi Steve/all,

I have not seen anything posted to this Mailman 2 mailing list about in 
person user groups specific to GnuCash in the last 6 months...

You may have some luck/interest in GnuCash from the few Linux User 
Groups (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_user_group) that are still 
active, including NYLUG (http://nylug.org/), LILUG 
(http://www.lilug.org/), NJLUG (https://www.meetup.com/NJLinux/), and 
several others in the areas you listed.

I am on the "board" of the North Bay Linux Users Group 
(https://nblug.org/) and we have been meeting monthly for about the last 
1.5 years since the common pandemic hiatus. I also find it very helpful 
and enjoyable to meet others in person and discuss 
interests/questions/issues/etc.

One of my projects has been to scout out interest in forming a 
national/international umbrella organization of LUGs because so many of 
the local groups are scattered and not organized into a registered 501c3 
nonprofit organization. While that structure totally makes sense for 
smaller, all volunteer orgs, if all those independent LUGs had some 
organizational, financial, technical, marketing/PR, & legal structure & 
support, it would be a tremendous help and likely minimize the 
disruptions caused when a key member moves away or loses interest and 
the LUG falls apart. Even for the existing and ongoing LUGs like NBLUG, 
when we migrated our Mailman server from 2 to 3, no one in our group had 
done it before and it was a struggle. Having optional, central support 
for very occasional tasks like that makes updates/changes much easier 
and provides redundancy/backup for when something fails (like when the 
Texas storms took out the GnuCash website server and there was trouble 
with the host's ISP for weeks afterwards & the security/https 
certificates expiring/not redirecting correctly & some scrambling around 
trying to create and use workarounds for almost 2 months in early 2023 - 
https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2023-March/thread.html). 
The Linux Foundation (https://www.linuxfoundation.org/) offered some 
support & resources 
(https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo), but they are not a 
501c3. The Software Freedom Conservancy 
(https://sfconservancy.org/projects/services/) & Software in the Public 
Interest (https://www.spi-inc.org/membership/) are both 501c3 nonprofits 
and both fiscally sponsor nonprofit, open source projects, but SFC  has 
not been responsive (they seem overwhelmed with their current work) and 
I should check in with SPI...

GnuCash is also not a sponsored project of any 501c3 nonprofit org that 
I know of, so donations from US taxpayers are not deductible, but still 
greatly appreciated - https://gnucash.org/donate.phtml

Apologies for 'hijacking' your post, but you likely figured out that 
with no responses in 4 days, the basic answer was no.

Good luck!

Brad


On 7/13/23 14:38, Steve Freeman wrote:
> Are there any user groups that meet in person? I'd really like to
> occasionally work with others. Live in Connecticut, but travel to New York
> (especially Westchester), New Jersey  and Philadelphia.
>
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> Steve Freeman
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