Local Ubuntu conference [Was: Metrocracy vs democracy]

[bwright]

Why do people find structure so critical to a community. We are a
group of people interested in Ubuntu and the progression of Ubuntu in
Australia. Do we need to hold conferences with minutes and boards?
None of this is at all binding so how can you expect anyone who does
not get their "voted" leader in to at all follow any rules set by the
leaders or follow any policy they disagree with? Pretty much you have
no way of enforcing users comply to any of your demands. In my opinion
the only viable option is to act as a community and not a company and
let the community participate in activities they wish to participate
in. I am prepared to participate in a constructive way to improve
Ubuntu and open source and free software. I am not prepared to sit at
an AGM. Just my 2 cents. But then again a conference would be cool if
we could talk about tech? Such a strange idea.
On Jun 10, 7:49 pm, Daniel Sobey <dns_ser... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 12:26 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > <quote who="Paul Gear">
>
> > > Sounds like we in the Brisbane team need to get cracking...
>
> > :-)
>
> > Another nice bonus when it comes to holding an event ahead of linux.conf.au:
> > there are usually quite a few Canonical folk from overseas speaking or just
> > attending. Though not crucial (we have awesome local contributors of course)
> > it's a nice way to ratchet up interest from less community-connected folks.
>
> > (The very first GNOME.conf.au in 2004 was a massive success because we had
> > an unusually large presence of GNOME and X contributors that year.)
>
> > - Jeff
>
> I'd be interested in this, even if it's just a few hours on the Sunday
> before the conference it would be useful to meet up. If we can't be
> bothered organising that i would like to meet up and have a meal with
> other people from the loco some time in the conference.
>
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