New England needs Support

[Shahriar Tariq]

Hi Owen,
I ditto with David.

I'm not  sure whether you are updated with Ubuntu-Bangladesh team. We
have recently faced few hiccups.
Due disagreements on philosophical standing, roadmaps we should follow
and some other factors our team splited in few segments, moreover we
lost few of our key mentor (like our previous team contact Russell
John stepped down).

Our team was inactive for almost 6 months untill recently few of the
member got together and started hanging out. We now meet every second
wewk of the month and discusss about foss world personal life and so
on. Gradually we have seen new faces joining with us. We entitled
these new faces with the job of distributing cds creating screencast.
It worked well for both the team and general users.

Now I've recently switched job, and can't provide much time to the
group/team. But the team has gots it momentum, without the loco teams
initiative members are arranging meetups gathering install fast (it
does not matter how small it is). The members are even planning to
organize a grand linux installfest along with Fedora Bangladesh team.

I hope you can hang on few more months and set the momentam for the
team to gather future team leaders.

Best of luck

On 5/23/11, David Overcash <funnylookinhat at gmail.com> wrote:
> Martin -
> I definitely hear you - as the Colorado team has been through it's ups and
> downs - but if I can give you any advice, its that running the two events a
> year ( even if they're just release parties ) make it worth keeping the team
> together.  Ultimately, your goal should be to find another group of leaders
> who are just as excited as you four used to be, and then pass the baton to
> them.
>
> In the meantime - I've found the best way to connect with team members and
> to continue to stay as present as possible as a leader is to try to schedule
> smaller / less-formal get-togethers.  We have a local meetup group that
> we've partnered with that hosts a once-a-month get together to talk shop
> about Linux and whatnot - it's done wonders for expanding the member base
> and has greatly increased our activity.  Maybe you should try reaching out
> to other groups in the area and partner with them in a similar fashion?
>  Sometimes something as simple as promising 50 CDs to a local group is
> enough to create strong ties to carry both of your teams together through
> the rough patches.
>
> Just some thoughts - hopefully they're encouraging and helpful.
>
> Cheers,
> David
>
> On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Martin Owens <doctormo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey guys,
>>
>> I seek advice from the greater 'Local Community' Community about what to
>> do with the Massachusetts Team and in effect what to do with it as it's
>> the only team in New England that has ever been active enough to really
>> run some big events.
>>
>> The team used to be lead by a bunch of different people who came to the
>> team back when Ubuntu was new and exciting. Me, Mike, Steve and Danny.
>> The rag-tag bunch ran the team fairly well. Steve has his MIT
>> commitments, Mike is annoyed with Ubuntu Design direction, Danny is
>> pissed off about the lack of Free Software advocacy and I'm way over
>> committed as a foss programmer and contractor.
>>
>> So what to do? If I call time on the team then New England (and area of
>> about 14 million people) will have no LoCo at all. Not that the team
>> does more than an event a year at the moment, but at least it's
>> something and shows that things are happening.
>>
>> We could do with help to resuscitate the team, either from the loco
>> council or from some friendly people in the rest of the community. I
>> don't really know what to do any more and I don't want to pretend I
>> don't care any more, Ubuntu is the only software community actually
>> attempting to make the FreeDesktop thing fly in the real world and the
>> Local Communities have been instrumental in pushing the system out into
>> the real world.
>>
>> So despite the headwinds, we need a push.
>>
>> Yours, Martin Owens
>>
>>
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>>
>


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