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Updated User Group HOWTO for the auther as per authors request.

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<title>Linux User Group HOWTO
<author><url name="Rick Moen" url="mailto:%20rick@linuxmafia.com%20"></author>
<date>v1.8.6, 2016-02-25
<date>v1.8.7, 2016-03-14
<abstract>
The Linux User Group HOWTO is a guide to founding, maintaining, and
@ -256,8 +256,12 @@ cloud computing, embedded computing, and many others).</item>
<item>LUG leaders poorly managing a generational transition,
leaving nobody ready to take over as they bow out.</item>
<item>Greater ubiquity of the Internet generally, and
specifically reputation-based collaborative sites like StackExchange,
StackOverflow, Doctype, Codeproject, and Serverfault, not to mention
specifically reputation-based collaborative sites like
<url name="StackExchange" url="http://unix.stackexchange.com/">,
<url name="StackOverflow" url="http://stackoverflow.com/">,
<url name="Doctype" url="http://doctype.com/">,
<url name="Codeproject" url="http://www.codeproject.com/">, and
<url name="Serverfault" url="http://serverfault.com/">, not to mention
users becoming skilled at Web-searching, making LUGs far less
pragmatically necessary, and the main action involving SaaS sites having
site scale and network effects with which LUGs cannot compete.</item>
@ -314,9 +318,9 @@ rather than founding one.</it>
As of 2016, there are LUGs in 43 US states, seven of Canada's ten provinces,
all six of Australia's states plus the Australian Capital Territory, in 76
locations in India, and over 100 other countries, including Russia, China, most
of Western and Eastern Europe, and many parts of Africa, South America, Central
America, Oceania, and the Caribbean. (This does not include Linux groups
internal to <url name="Meetup.com" url="http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Essays/meetup.html">.)
of Western and Eastern Europe, and many parts of Africa, Asia, South America,
Central America, Oceania, and the Caribbean. (This does not include Linux
groups internal to <url name="Meetup.com" url="http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Essays/meetup.html">.)
<itemize>
<item><url name="Lugslist" url="http://lugslist.com/"></item>
@ -457,7 +461,7 @@ concerning GNU/Linux, it's also pointless: Unlike the case with proprietary
OSes, our OS will not live or die by the level of its acceptance and
release/maintenance of ported applications. It and all key applications
are open source: the programmer community that maintains it is
self-supporting, and would keep it advancing and healthy regardless
self-supporting, and would keep it advancing and and healthy regardless
of whether the business world and general public uses it with wild
abandon, only a little, or not at all. Because of its open-source
licence terms, source code is permanently available. GNU/Linux cannot be
@ -601,7 +605,7 @@ More recently,
they've been joined by
<it><url name="Linux Format" url="http://www.linuxformat.com"></it> (UK),
<it><url name="LinuxUser and Developer" url="http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/"></it> (UK),
<it><url name="Linux Magazine" url="http://www.linux-magazine.com/"></it> (German publishing firm; publishes in English, German, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, and Spanish; North American edition is named Linux Pro Magazine),
<it><url name="Linux Magazine" url="http://www.linux-magazine.com/"></it> (German publishing firm; publishes in English, German, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, and Spanish; North American edition is named <it>Linux Pro Magazine</it>),
<it><url name="Open Source For You"
url="http://opensourceforu.efytimes.com/"></it> (India; formerly <it>LINUX
For You)</it>,
@ -812,6 +816,8 @@ development of software working with GNU/Linux:
<item><url url="https://my.fsf.org/associate/support_freedom" name="Free Software Foundation">
<item><url url="http://www.kde.org/community/donations/" name="KDE Project (KDE e.V.)">
<item><url url="http://www.gnome.org/friends/" name="GNOME Foundation">
<item><url url="http://http://sfconservancy.org/" name="Software Freedom Conservancy">
<item><url url="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/" name="The Mozilla Foundation">
</itemize>
<p>
@ -1679,6 +1685,8 @@ HOWTO from 3.0 to 4.0. Included nod to realism that, no, the world at large
is never going to adopt the usage "GNU/Linux", but please indulge me anyway.
Linked in two appropriate places to separate Meetup.com rant.
<Item>1.8.6: Fixed new typos and punctuation errors, revised antiquated emphasis on ftp, and averted one quibble about tax-exempt status not requiring incorporation (the 501(c)(3) exception). Politely disagreed with Kendall's implication that everyone deserves an equal say in "big decisions".
<Item>1.8.7: Add Software Freedom Conservancy and The Mozilla
Foundation.
</item>
</itemize>