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!!Application for Funding
!1.6 Tell us about the focus and purpose of your organisation and what you are hoping to achieve
-The Waikato Linux Users Group Incorporated (commonly known as WLUG) is an incorporated society designed to advocate and promote the usage of Open Source and Free Software, particularly (***)
the Linux operating system.
+The Waikato Linux Users Group Incorporated (commonly known as WLUG) is an incorporated society designed to advocate and promote the usage of Open Source and Free Software, particularly the Linux operating system.
Full definitions of Open Source Software and Free Software are attached to this application, however in summary “Free” software is free in both senses of the word; it comes at no cost, and it contains the liberty to control and modify the software through the availability of the 'source code', the instructions the computer uses to run the program and that any programmer can modify.
-WLUG is a member of a worldwide network of Linux User Groups, grassroots organisations dedicated to (***)
the advancement of software that both adheres to open standards (***)
and allows users the freedom to improve the software. (***)
+WLUG is a member of a worldwide network of Linux User Groups, grassroots organisations dedicated to the advancement of software that both adheres to open standards and allows users the freedom to change and
improve the software.
The charter of the Waikato Linux Users Group Incorporated defines the purpose of the WLUG as “a support community for Open Source and Free Software”:
* As a support community for Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD (and other Open Source or Free Operating Systems)
* As a vector for the promotion of Open Source software and Operating Systems within non-profit, commercial and industrial organisations
* As a vector for the promotion of Open Source software and Operating Systems within government bodies, including but not limited to educational bodies of all levels, medical bodies, local and national government, and political parties.
* As a means of providing additional support and resources to its members; including, but not limited to, electronic mailboxes, access to a public Linux server, access to a society library of technical books. Only members of the society have access to these resources, but anyone who is interested are invited to become member.
-Our membership fees are currently set at $20, one
month after our 2003 financial period began, we have over 30 paid members, we
have 113 people on our Intenret mailing list and our web site, where we offer a Wiki, a publicaly accessible and editable information database, recieves around 60,000 unique visits (1.4 million hits) a month
.
+Our membership fees are currently set at $20. One
month after our 2003 financial period began, we have over 30 paid members. We
have 113 people on our Intenret mailing list.
-Our website
+We run a free public web site, http://www.wlug.org.nz/, where we offer a Wiki, a publically accessible and editable information database. This web site contains information both on the WLUG itself and on many topics relating to Linux and computing in general. It recieves around 60,000 unique visits (1.4 million hits) a month, and has a following all around the world.
!1.7 When was your organisation established? DONE
The original Internet mailing list (the official communications channel) of the WLUG was started in late 1998; the list as it exists today contains archives back to March 1999, and we incorporated as a society on 28 November 2002.
