Micro LUGs & the LUG Buddies

In my desire to promote the Good and the Honest cause of Free Software, I have been meaning to set up a "GNU/Linux for beginners" course for a while, putting back into The Community (whatever that is) pro bono what I have learned and prospered from over the years.

That rules out my own training business, so I have enquired about setting up a Linux Users Group (or LUG, as they are fetchingly known). However, this would be a LUG with a difference. The difference is two-fold: it will be a micro LUG, on an individual town basis, and it will incorporate a buddy system, whereby an experienced Linux user would be teamed up with a newbie, who would hold their hand throughout the setting up process. A suitable name may be LUG Buddies.

The idea is that then the buddy system grows: the newbie becomes the experienced hack and helps someone else. By my predictions everyone will be using GNU/Linux by 13th September 2012!! (This is based on exponential growth and the value of predictions can go down as well as up).