A the concept of a Humanitarian User Group or HUG for short was first introduced in the Humanitarian-ICT mailing lists (ref: thread #2598 ) as a group similar to a Linux User Group, but with a focus on voluntary and community based education, support and deployment ICT in support of a humanitarian needs in a location and organization. As with LUGs, A HUG (Humanitarian User Group) will often be co-located in a specific location (e.g Philippines HUG) or an organization (e.g. Red Cross HUG) and will mostly consist of members who are part of that nation/locale or organization respectively.