LoCo Governance - How is your LoCo-team organised?

[Jan Claeys]

Op dinsdag 05-05-2009 om 10:26 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef Kevin Cole:
> Structure? Organization?  I don't understand. ;-)

:-)

Ubuntu-be is mostly chaos too, or at least looks like that.

> We operate in chaos via e-mail primarily.  I tend to send out
> announcements of events we can become involved with, and wait to see
> if anyone's interested.  We have a couple of yearly events that have
> become our regular "big" events (now in our 4th year at some of them).
> 
> As for regular meetings, on- or off-line, I wish.  (Well, really I
> *HATE* IRC meetings, and would vastly prefer face-to-face.)  However,
> the will of the people doesn't seem to be there.

I prefer face-to-face meetings too, but that's just unrealistic most of
the time, so weekly IRC meetings have to do (even if attendance is often
rather low, at least some people do something because of them).

> Most of us are involved in education in some way, and a few of the
> more active people, myself included, collaborate with other local
> groups (most notably, the One Laptop Per Child Learning Club).
> 
> We're mostly happy to just rally around things like the release
> parties / InstallFests, the Federal Office Systems Expo (FOSE),
> Software Freedom Day at the Takoma Park Folk Festival, and the weekly
> computer clinic at one of the local public libraries.  Not feeling a
> need for serious organization, and if we ever do, I'm definitely not
> the guy to do it. ;-)

-- 
Jan Claeys