April's Ubuntu-AU Team Meeting

[Stephen Rees-Carter]

Hi all,

I can't get to the meeting tonight (I've got band each week on Tuesday
nights which counts me out), but I do have some input on the agenda
item about loco.ubuntu.com.

I have had a little play around with the loco.ubuntu.com website, and
I think it's very good. It think we should use it for all the events
and meetings. Managing the wiki for events and meetings is a
completely manual process, and they would still need to be added to
loco.ubuntu.com anyway to get on the shared calendar (which works
great in Google Calendar!).

For those who haven't played around with loco.ubuntu.com, you login
with your launchpad credentials and you have the ability to Add Events
and Meetings. The configuration for these is a piece of cake - the
only tricky bit is transposing the date into UTC. For events you have
an attendees list which people can easily sign up for, and for
meetings you can add agenda items to the list, and then after the
meeting you can add a link to the minutes (and it automatically adds a
link to the chat log!). It's pretty powerful and simple.
(See http://loco.ubuntu.com/meetings/team/13/detail/ for a past meeting).

My only problem with it is finding past meetings - there is a link to
past events on the Team page (i.e.
http://loco.ubuntu.com/teams/ubuntu-au) but to get past meetings you
need to view "All meetings" and then click "Past Meetings".
I might see if I can raise a bug about this.

Anyway, these are just my thoughts feel free to disagree with me if
you don't like loco.ubuntu.com, and, wow that was a longer email than
I thought I was going to write... I hope it makes sense :D

Thanks,
~Stephen


On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 12:03 AM, Jared Norris <jrnorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> Good morning/afternoon/evening Ubuntu-AU'ers
>
> Just a quick reminder that there will be a team meeting tomorrow night
> (Tuesday) at 8PM AEST in the team IRC channel. As per usual practice
> there are a number of agenda items listed at:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/Meetings and please feel free
> to contribute your own topic.
>
> So far we have a few things to talk about so I thought I'd mention
> them here for anyone who can't make the meeting to have a bit of a
> say:
>     - Natty Narwhal release parties - good to see some chatter on the
> list, time to lock in times and places so we can advertise them. These
> don't need to be overly fancy, as long as it's 2 or more people
> getting together in a location to socialise and celebrate the new
> Ubuntu release.
>     - An update on where we're up to with the requests that have been
> made to Canonical regarding our hosted planet and website.
>     - Loco.ubuntu.com - is anyone using this? What are your
> impressions, I'm wondering if we can consolidate the meeting wiki and
> the events website here to have the one place for our loco calendar.
>
> I hope to see as many of you there as possible and if you can't make
> it, like always, feel free to discuss these items on the list
>
> Regards,
>
> Jared Norris JP(Qual) BBehSc(Psych)
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JaredNorris
>
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Stephen Rees-Carter ~ Valorin
http://stephen.rees-carter.net/