AUS LoCo Status

[Andrew Gaydon]

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>    1. AUS LoCo status? (Jason Allen)
>    2. Re: AUS LoCo status? (Paul Shirren)
>    3. Re: AUS LoCo status? (Callan Jefferson Davies)
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> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:07:57 +1100
> From: "Jason Allen" <jason at theallens.id.au>
> Subject: AUS LoCo status?
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> With Planet and Planet Users participating in the "Get to know a LoCo" meme
> at the moment, I thought I find out about the AUS loCo ...
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> 1. The LoCoTeam List (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeamList) leads me to
> http://www.ubuntu.com.au/ which appears to have had no activity since June
> 2008
> 2. LoCoTeamList also leads me to
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeamwhich appears to have had no
> activity updates since Aug 2008
> 3. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam directs me to
> http://ubuntu.org.au/, which is the same as #1 above.
> 4. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/Members has had a recent update
> onlya few days ago with an addition for Sth AUS. (and now me)
> 5. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam shows no meetings or newsletters
> since June 2008
> 6. Planet AU (http://planet.ubuntu.org.au/) appears to have little Ubuntu
> activity
> 7. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IntrepidReleaseParties shows nothing occurred for
> AUS
>
> So I make the assessment that Australia LoCo is either a very stagnant or
> dead LoCo? Is this a fair assessment? If not, what/where have I missed for
> info and activities of AUS LoCo? If it is a fair assessment, why is this the
> case? Do AU Ubuntu'ites like it this way?
>
> I'm not trying to play or stir politics - if there has been any on this
> topic in the past - but just trying to understand the current status. Is
> this list the only real communication and activity of ubuntu-au?
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> Thanks.
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Hi Jason,

Good points that you make, a while back I joined the www.ubuntu.com.au 
website and had made the same observations.
I submitted some emails to the appropriate people (that I thought) 
asking about the group and in particular the website.

I live in Brisbane, and would love to get in contact with the users up 
here. I also have some Drupal experience and can see that the 
ubuntu.com.au website can be improved, to be more useful and I am more 
that happy to help out.


As I see it, unless there is some pro-activity, then this wonderful 
project called "Ubuntu" will not propagate throughout the community 
because the product quality is certainly up there with the best.

If not many people know about the alternatives to MS, then how can they 
make an informed choice about which OS to use. (even more important 
given Windows 7 is just around the corner)


Maybe the New year will mobilise some activity within the Australian 
Ubuntu community.

Cheers,
Andrew.


PS. We all appreciate that people are busy and time is precious.