Hi all,

Driven by the success of R, a number of local R users groups have been
formed in several places (London, NY, etc.). We are also currently
considering setting up our own local group in Spain.

We have found that setting up a web page in order to centralise the
information relevant to the group members, keep a calendar of events,
and other functionalities is very important as a tool to keep the
community together and active. Other local groups have developed
their own web portals. We are discussing the implementations details
of our own.

We believe that nurturing these local communities could help to build
stronger user base. We are aware that r-forge and r-wiki projects,
currently under the r-project umbrella, started from discussions on
this list.

Therefore, we would like to propose that a new discussion were open in
the list in order to consider the convenience of setting up a new
"environment" under r-project (and parallel to r-forge and r-wiki)
where local user groups could build their web pages and provide their
members the required services under a common architecture and sharing
a number of tools.

We believe that this would be a great addition to the community and we
would be delighted to hear the community express their views on the
topic.

Best regards.

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