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Thanks Tristan,

Having informal talks with related people is skipping steps to me. I think
I should know what to talk about and how to make people contribute. Total
newbie here :) .

As you have a lot of experience with new community can you help me with all
the beginning steps too.

Regrads


On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Tristan Goode <tristan at aptira.com> wrote:

> Hi Surit,
>
>
>
> Welcome!!! Have you seen the "How To" guide at
> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/OpenStackUserGroups/HowTo ? There is some
> helpful information and links there to help get started.
>
>
>
> We (our company Aptira) started off in Australia and India by holding an
> informal get together and we started by getting in touch with related FOSS
> UGs, NOGs and also educational institutions and inviting them to come eat
> some food and drink a few beers and talk. From there we invited some
> overseas guests to video conference to talk about specific projects in the
> OpenStack eco system. Lately we have been hooking people into meetups using
> Google Hangouts across the world. We also have an AOSUG planning Etherpad
> at https://etherpad.openstack.org/AustralianOpenStackGroupPlanning that
> we've been using lately to plan events.
>
>
>
> Other than that, please ask and we'll do our best to help you get underway.
>
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>
> I know everyone that has started a group that I've met (so many people in
> the last couple of years!) have had a great time, and I feel very fortunate
> now to be part of this community. I look forward to seeing you feel the
> same way!
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Tristan
>
>
>
> Australian OpenStack UG co-founder and organizer
>
> Indian OpenStack UG supporter
>
> Member OpenStack oundation BoD
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* Surit Aryal [mailto:surit.killer at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 10 September 2013 5:47 PM
> *To:* community at lists.openstack.org
> *Subject:* [openstack-community] New Community (Nepal)
>
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> Few days back I was asked to drop an email to this mailing list by Tom
> regarding the subject, But I was busy preparing for SFD in Nepal so I could
> not send one. I have bought some time to write an email today.
>
>
>
> My name is Surit and I am from Nepal. I am a student. I am a FOSS
> enthusiast. I am involved with different FOSS related groups in my country
> like FOSS Nepal, Mozilla Nepal, Nepal Open Source Klub (NOSK) etc. I am
> also a Mozilla representative for my country.
>
> Few days back I started contributing to openstack by
> translating(localization) in Transifex.
>
> Now I would like to open a community here in my country so that I could
> fetch more contributors. I would like to know the necessary process for
> doing so.
>
> In addition to that I am also a little naive to this project so it would
> be great if I could receive some trainings or something that would help me
> and my community
>
> Regrads
>
> Surit Aryal
>
>
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