This forum was created because someone requested a Group Starting Packet from the Secular Student Alliance for Cal Tech. If you are interested in getting involved, post to this forum or email the leaders at caltech[AT]secularstudents[DOT]org.  The mission of the Secular Student Alliance is to organize, unite, educate, and serve students and student communities that promote the ideals of scientific and critical inquiry, democracy, secularism, and human based ethics.  The bulk of our efforts go into starting and supporting high school and college groups that choose to affiliate with us.   We hope that this forum will be useful to those students and faculty who are interested in getting a group off the ground.The packet includes a paper version of our Group Running Guide, but the electronic version (http://www.secularstudents.org/grouprunningguide) will prove better than nothing.There is some general group starting advice here:http://www.secularstudents.org/node/379 Many of our student leaders find that Facebook.com, MySpace.com, and Google Groups are very useful organizing tools for them.  You can read a little about Facebook here: http://www.secularstudents.org/node/609 It's not as detailed as we like, but it's a start.An overview of our services is here:http://www.secularstudents.org/community/services.htmlSome meeting ideas are here: http://www.secularstudents.org/node/377Our Succession Planning page is here:http://www.secularstudents.org/node/410Our sample constitution is here:http://www.secularstudents.org/node/182  Please feel free to contact us directly at neil[AT]secularstudents[dot]org.