I'm in rural SW Missouri [Springfield nearest city].
My web search turned up groups in Kansas City, St. Louis, one evidently somewhere along Mississippi river.

~20 years ago there was a general computer users group {Windows focused}
but it apparently died when COVID appeared.

Is there some sort of national 'database'?

TIA

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Le 07/02/2026 … 15:06, Richard Owlett a ‚critÿ:

I'm in rural SW Missouri [Springfield nearest city].
My web search turned up groups in Kansas City, St. Louis, one evidently somewhere along Mississippi river.

~20 years ago there was a general computer users group {Windows focused}
but it apparently died when COVID appeared.

Is there some sort of national 'database'?

TIA

Hello,

There is a Missouri LUG page from the Linuxlinks website: https://www.linuxlinks.com/linux-usa-missouri/

there is also an Ubuntu Missouri Team webpage that cites local LUGs: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MissouriTeam

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On 2/7/26 8:36 AM, didier gaumet wrote:

Le 07/02/2026 … 15:06, Richard Owlett a ‚critÿ:

I'm in rural SW Missouri [Springfield nearest city].
My web search turned up groups in Kansas City, St. Louis, one
evidently somewhere along Mississippi river.

~20 years ago there was a general computer users group {Windows
focused} but it apparently died when COVID appeared.

Is there some sort of national 'database'?

TIA

Hello,

There is a Missouri LUG page from the Linuxlinks website: https://www.linuxlinks.com/linux-usa-missouri/

there is also an Ubuntu Missouri Team webpage that cites local LUGs: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MissouriTeam

Thanks for trying.
The first did not point to something local enough.
The the second had two explicit Springfield links.
Both resulted in "Server Not Found" messages and I discovered no way to
report the broken links.

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Sorry, for MO.US. Saint Louis is all I'm aware of,
though most of the tracking I did has been bit more limited in scope.
I did start this during COVID, when shelter-in-place / lockdowns started: https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:covid-19
And if one wants a handy shortcut, use as little as balug.org/covid
(https or http)
and one will be redirected to the above canonical.
And I may have been the first to put such together covering (mostly)
English speaking [Linux] User Group meetings that were having or had
added on-line meetings.
So, may not always be one local, but one can generally find one or
more English speaking
LUG meetings almost every day of the month, and some days with
multiple such meetings.
There's also:
https://wiki.debian.org/LocalGroups#USA
But not necessarily everything on there is up-to-date
(alas, bad.debian.net hasn't been active for a while - most notably
person handling the web site and list seems to have long been asleep
at the switch - I've not been able
to successfully contact them in years - have been hoping to save the
list membership and archives and get
the list and site active again).

And, may not be so close to you, but one of the largest and most
active that I'm aware of,
in/around that region of the US, would be
Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts https://ale.org/

Of course one can always start one's own local [Debian/GNU] Linux User
Group! :-)
There's pretty good info on how to (not) do that here:
Recipe for a Successful Linux User Group http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Linux_PR/newlug.html
Some of that info. is a bit dated or even (mostly/entirely?) obsolete,
but much of it is still rather to quite/highly applicable.
If you get one going for Debian, do be sure to get it on the relevant
Debian wiki page(s).
Also, if you do one specifically for Debian, could potentially do a
subdomain under debian.net - you'd need to be
or have a Debian developer (or maintainer?) assist you with that, but
that would be a possibility.

So, maybe not that local, but you can probably find multiple in the
greater region,
and also English speaking in the same timezone.

You might ask/check also around local/regional colleges, research
institutions, libraries,
etc. Sometimes they may know of some or be able to point you in the
right direction.
Sometimes such student run organizations at colleges may exist, but
too, sometimes
they come in and out of existence depending what students are there
any given academic year.

Also, near(ish) by / regional meetings, folks there or on such lists
might know of
relevant group(s) closer to you and/or contact person(s) interested in
starting such.

On Sat, Feb 7, 2026 at 7:12?AM Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net>
wrote:

On 2/7/26 8:36 AM, didier gaumet wrote:

Le 07/02/2026 … 15:06, Richard Owlett a ‚crit :

I'm in rural SW Missouri [Springfield nearest city].
My web search turned up groups in Kansas City, St. Louis, one
evidently somewhere along Mississippi river.

~20 years ago there was a general computer users group {Windows
focused} but it apparently died when COVID appeared.

Is there some sort of national 'database'?

TIA

Hello,

There is a Missouri LUG page from the Linuxlinks website: https://www.linuxlinks.com/linux-usa-missouri/

there is also an Ubuntu Missouri Team webpage that cites local LUGs: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MissouriTeam

Thanks for trying.
The first did not point to something local enough.
The the second had two explicit Springfield links.
Both resulted in "Server Not Found" messages and I discovered no way to report the broken links.

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