Ubuntu Saudi Arabia LoCo and IRC channel

[Paul Tagliamonte]

Already forwarded, thanks a ton Chaz :)

We'll get back to you, Bilal

-Paul

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 4:44 PM,  <indigo196 at rochester.rr.com> wrote:
> You need to bring your concerns to the loco-council mailing list.
>  loco-council<at>lists.ubuntu.com
>
> You can also talk to them in their IRC channel.
>
> You can find specific people to contact on this page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoCouncil
>
> you can also talk to them on IRC in the channel #ubuntu-lococouncil on freenode.net
>
> ~ cprofitt
>
>
> ---- Bilal Akhtar <bilalakhtar96 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> There I come.
>>
>> Hello and assalam alaikum everybody.
>>
>> I am NOT the leader of the LoCo team to be exact. I manage the Launchpad
>> team (~ubuntu-sa) but Nayif is the leader of the so-called team.
>>
>> Why am I calling the team 'so-called'? Because the team is *almost*
>> dead. The *dead* mailing list is hosted on google groups (I don't know
>> why Nayif chose that). I wished to change that once, and started the
>> Launchpad team, hoping to set up a lists.ubuntu.com mailing list soon.
>> Due to very little participation of the >150 google groups mailing lists
>> subscribers in the Launchpad team, I gave up my hope in reviving the
>> team.
>>
>> I would be glad if someone transfers the IRC channel ownership to me
>> (nick: bilalakhtar). I am very much active on IRC and Launchpad (mainly
>> Ubuntu Development, bug fixing, merging and syncing). I already operate
>> channel #gnome-media-player on Freenode.
>>
>> Summing up all of the above points, I want the following to happen now:
>>
>> 1) EVERYONE ACTIVE in the team should join the Launchpad team
>> ( https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-sa ).
>>
>> 2) Once that is done, I will transfer the administration of the above
>> team to Nayif (Where are you?).
>>
>> 3) I also want to take over channel #ubuntu-sa and get ubot2 or ubot4 to
>> stay on it.
>>
>> 4) I also want a group of Arabic translators to translate every page I
>> write into Arabic. Language is a big problem for me, as I am a native
>> Urdu speaker and can write and speak English well, but not Arabic.
>> Google Translate is my friend.
>>
>> 5) Where is our Forums subdomain?
>>
>> 6) We should host events. So far, we *never* hosted any event.
>>
>> 7) I would remain the team contact, but the leader would be Nayif (if he
>> is still active) and if not, then I will take over that as well.
>>
>> There. I hope that the above points solve the confusion among everyone
>> over here.
>>
>> I will soon translate the Ubuntu Saudi LoCo team wiki page into English
>> as well (when I get the time, I m too busy in Ubuntu development).
>>
>> Thank you for reading my mail.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Bilal Akhtar.
>>
>>
>> > irc-council at lists.ubuntu.com?
>>
>
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