Formal v Informal structure

[Jared Norris]

On 19 May 2010 12:27, Scott Evans <scott at vk7hse.hobby-site.org> wrote:

>  On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 12:04 +1000, Paul Gear wrote:
>
> On 19/05/10 11:11, Cary Bielenberg wrote:
> > Ok just got off my backside&  had a look&  on average the teams are 1 owner&  between 2&  6 admins depending on the country. Interestingly the US has state based loco's. I guess we are way too small for that. As Andrew stated there is 2 models for this&  we will have to decide what model/structure we take.
> >
>
> I've been thinking about the applicability of state-based LoCos as
> well.  Assuming even population spread between states, and an identical
> per-capita take-up of Ubuntu between .au and .us (both highly flawed
> assumptions), .us has 309 million persons (very rough figure from
> Wikipedia) in 50 states, or approximately one LoCo per 6,180,000
> persons.  A per-state LoCo would give .au (22 million persons in 8
> states - we'll count ACT & NT as states), or approximately one LoCo per
> 2,750,000 persons.  This is not really that different, and i wonder
> whether it wouldn't be more practical in terms of co-ordination and the
> like.
>
> Paul
>
>
>
> It's a bit of a catch 22 either way, I had thought along similar lines but
> I think there would be a bit of a struggle to get sufficient numbers to make
> it work and remain working beyond initial set up
>
> However I still believe that there should be a structure of sorts, but the
> pros & cons for me presently have me a bit muffed at it all and so while I'm
> thinking like this I'll most likely be a fence sitter (no helpful I know!)
> But lets also face it, the US wouldn't have it any other way now would they!
> (in jest)
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Good morning/afternoon/even Ubuntu-AU'ers

The main issue I see with separate state based locos is that it might just
function for Qld, NSW, VIC, SA but I don't think the other states have
enough active members to make it work. The issue then would be what if a new
Ubuntu user from one of these states came along and saw no activity at all.
I believe they would be more put off by that than if we had an Australian
wide one like we do now. Hence why I think subgroups like what Andrew has
done for Brisbane are the way to go for areas where there are higher
densities of members. These should all be documented on the main wiki with
their own separate page like the Brisbane group and all discussion should
still be on the mailing list and IRC as it is still a Ubuntu-AU group of
people.

Regards,

Jared Norris
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