Meeting the Washington DC LUG

In the medical student's scientific society I used to be a member of, we had collaberations with our counterparts in other countries.

I can identify a resemblance in this situation. So I'll try to apply what we did there.

• First we want to know what activities they carry out there and compare them to what we do. If we are missing something they tell us how to do it. If they are missing something we tell them how we do it.

• Then we want to start to see the possibilities of coordinating an event with them. A joint confrence, like the DEFCON/HACKON suggested in another thread.

• We used to have student exchange, we could do LUE ( linux user exchange ). We send people to meet them ( like Youssef ), and they send people to meet us, exchange expertise and ideas.

• I know some lugs have mailing lists, we could organize joint mailing lists to consolidate expertise, and maybe publish a joint lug journal.

I just realized that some of the ideas here, could be done on a local level even if we don't cooperate with any lugs. I have some more ideas that are not related to this thread so I will post them elsewhere.