Fwd: Ubuntero.org - LoCo Participation

[Anthony Yarusso]

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Matthew East wrote:
> Just for information/interest.
>
> I don't really know what I think about this, my immediate reaction is
> that the community doesn't need *another* meeting place to follow
> discussions (it's already difficult to keep up with the mailing lists
> and forums) and that having yet another place to follow is going to be
> impossible for me, and likely to cause division in the members of the
> community.
>
> What do others think?
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: dchosenb at gmail.com <dchosenb at gmail.com>
> Date: 2 Oct 2007 19:05
> Subject: Ubuntero.org - LoCo Participation
> To: mdke at ubuntu.com
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> Dear Matthew EastWe want to let you know about Ubuntero.org, a new
> open social network created by and for the Ubuntu community.  This
> message is a brief introduction to Ubuntero.org and an invitation to
> the Italy LoCo to join the Ubuntero.org Community.
>
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> We envision the participation of LoCo communities to be essential to
> the growth and success of the Ubuntero community.  We would like to
> encourage you to take a look at the site, poke around and see what's
> possible.  If you like what you see, we want to encourage you to
> create a community for your LoCo and to encourage your members to sign
> up, to create profiles, and to join your LoCo community on the site.
>
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>
> For an example of what this looks like, here is a link to the
> community for the Pennsylvania LoCo (http://ubuntero.org/locopa) on
> the site.  Each LoCo community can have its own blog, track events,
> post personal and / or community pictures and media, and much more. I
> feel it's important to point out that we are not attempting to
> supersede any existing communication you have, but think this could be
> a nice addition to LoCo members' interaction with one another.  For
> some example user profiles, you can see the profiles for the Ubuntero
> Admins, Andrew (http://ubuntero.org/andrew), Edwin
> (http://ubuntero.org/edwin), Oscar ( http://ubuntero.org/omcantu), and
> myself, Ken (http://ubuntero.org/dchosenb).
>
>  Let us know what you think, and please send us any comments /
> questions you have.
>
>  Best regards,
>  Ken Wilson Ubuntero.org Admin
>
Depends what they're doing.  I don't mind having another web site in
principle, I just don't want it to replicate functionality of existing
ones.  ie, there's no point in having more forums, wikis, bug report
systems, etc., but there could be some usefulness to social
networking.  I know I've added some Ubuntu people as "friends" on
Facebook, and used that for messaging and whatnot, so there are some
areas you could do decent things with it - just be careful.

- - Tony
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