Ubuntu-au Obsolete? or needing a revamp?

Daniel Sobey dns_server at yahoo.com
Thu Sep 3 12:21:15 BST 2009


Hi Scott,


I've been thinking about this for a while and i'm still not sure what we
can do of what we can do.

First thing we need to work out what we are here for.
Are we here just as a mailing list/irc room for anyone who wanders in?
That is something that is relatively easy to do and does not have a huge
amount of overhead. This is what we are currently doing and is working
fine if that is all we want to do but we could do more.

We have some problems that many loco's don't have. We are a big country
and we are not all in the same place. From what i can see most of the
active loco's are in a narrower area ie just a state in the usa where
there are a lot of people that can meet up.

I don't think we can become a lug and all meet up and talk about ubuntu.
many it appears that most of the people that hang out in irc are from
sydney and it might work there but not nation wide. I'd be happy to do
something if we all meet up at things like linux.conf.au or osdc (i
should go to that atleast once) and i think we should atleast go out to
dinner at linux.conf.au, depending on how many are coming i'd be happy
to pay for peoples drinks or meals.

We probably are not that big but feel free to speak up. To do anything
we need someone to think up an idea and then someone to do it. Feel free
to make a suggestion. We probably have a lot of people here with the
time and ability but not the ideas.

I don't think we talk enough. We don't seem to have any developers on
this list, if we do please post a message on what project you are
working on. We should also share what we are doing as users. I've seen
some chatter about google wave in irc, how is that progressing for
example. 

I sit in irc most days. irc is great if you know someone but horrible if
you don't and it can take some time to get to know people there. We do
get quite a bit of people joining #ubuntu-au, asking a question and
leaving within a minute. it is kind of frustrating when it happens.
there have been many times when someone will join, ask a question and
leave before you are able to finish typing a hello message. 

Now i've spent far too long rambling about some of the problems what
could we do?

Well we have a planet which is good. We could try and make an effort to
write something useful on there, anyone got any good tips etc? it is
something we are doing but we could do more. It's probably not something
that i'm going to do but if i have anything interesting to share i'll do
it.

Do we have a facebook group, twitter handles etc. i'm identi.ca/dns but
i do not say a lot there.


How do you find out about us?
I've been an ubuntu user since neerly the start and had not bother
joining a loco. I've known about loco's for a while but never got around
to it.
Do you guys mention it at lug meetings etc? a little bit of word of
mouth will probably help.

I'm going to start a linux australia podcast (if anyone replies to my
message). if you want to bring back the ubuntu podcast i'd be happy to
help.

Hopefully you have read all my rambling and we are waiting on your ideas
and suggestions.


Regards,
Daniel




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