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I'm in the process of setting one up right now.
If you're looking for easy, meetup.com probably is the way to go. Personally I'm leveraging the connections I made via a recent end of 10 install event I organized. My state also has a directory of LUGs that I got added to. Our first meeting is in January so we'll see how it goes 🤞
I should add that first order of business will be deciding on a communication platform. I know mailing lists and IRC are the traditional solutions, but I'm trying to start a LUG that is more accessible to newbies who want help using Linux and don't necessarily want to learn how to connect to IRC or learn mailing list etiquette. I'm going to push for some kind of forum software, possibly Discourse.
This may sound kind of weird, but do you really need a communication platform for a LUG?
Our local LUG uses meetup and a website for advertising and telling people when we meet (once every two weeks at the same spot). (Okay I guess the one time our spot was closed and we had to track down people's phone numbers to inform them of the new spot wasn't that fun).
Anyway, we have a mailing list, an irc, and a matrix chat bridged to the irc, but they are effectively dead and no one uses them. The lack of activity on them makes me wonder if you really need to have a chatroom to run a LUG. We seem to get by just fine, for the most part.
Might not be necessary, time will tell.