[Ubuntu-be] IRC meeting 18/11/2009 - Report

[Jean7491]

IRC meeting report
Present at the IRC meeting 18/11/2009 (in random order) : LarsB, nero_, 
mongolito404, jean7491, jurgentje, guydup.

1. Future events
 a. Dipro fair Antwerp 29/11
The manning of the booth is OK, the team will be coordinate tby Bram.
About material : hardware and promotion material are available.

 b. Dipro Genk 06/12
The manning of the booth (4) is OK, coordination has to be done between 
the volunteers. About material : enough hardware (2 pc's from sponsor 
Alupcs, are at disposal) and a promotion material set is available in 
Antwerp.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BelgianTeam/ComputerFairs/Genk_2009-12-06

 c. Dipro fair Mechelen 13/12
The manning of the booth (5) is OK, a promotion material set is 
available in Antwerp and additional promo-material in Ostend.
Coordination by Jurgen (thanks Jurgen!, participants will contact you) 
and through the wiki 
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BelgianTeam/ComputerFairs/Mechelen_2009-12-13,
especially about material and hardware.

 d. Meeting Digipolis on Openbaar Computer Ruimtes in Ghent
Digipolis.be invited Ubuntu-be to a meeting on Openbaar Computer Ruimtes 
in Ghent on 14/12/2009 AM. We have the opportunity to present Ubuntu to 
interested people.
Kenneth ccould be present at the meeting (TBC), but we certainly need 
assitance for him : are there volunteers from Ghent area ready to help 
Kenneth for this presentation ?

 e. Future events in 2010
The Dipro calendar is not yet known.
It was suggested to think about a release party for Lucid Lynx 10.04LTS.
Does Ubuntu-be whish to organize a large release party, as in 2008 for 
8.04LTS ?
Ideas and comments can be send in the mailing list
Who is interested by the topic can post in the mailing list or contact 
the events team for exchange of ideas.

2. Promotion material
Nothing.

3. Things living in the mailing list
Support points - questions about the reliability and the update of the 
list/map.
We need to update the support map as the lack of reaction of support 
points gives   a negative image of Ubuntu community.
The support points map is usefull : although it is not the purpose of 
the map, it was used to find volunteers for Dipro fairs, with 
approximately 10 to 15% of  answers. All these answers were positive.

mongolito404 proposes the following plan of action :
- the first step would be to enable a member contact form on the website.
- then we need a way for site member (registred user) to state their 
commitments, and a way for visitor to search members based on their 
commitments,
- the search result could be displayed as list and/or map,
- additional features such a opt-out link could be added using whatever 
Drupal provides.
Any help is welcome. Volunteers are strongly invited to contact 
mongolito404.

4. Next IRC meeting on 25/11/2009 at 21 h.

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Jean
/Ubuntu Belgium Events Team/