Team Meeting Draft Minutes

[Corey Burger]

Brian, thanks for doing this. Thanks everybody for showing up. It was
good to chat with everybody and see some new faces. Lets make this
loco team rock (and beat -au :) )

Corey

On 12/9/06, Brian Burger <blurdesign at gmail.com> wrote:
> Draft minutes from our IRC meeting this evening, just concluded a few hours
> ago.
>
> **********
> Meeting notes written up by Brian Burger (Madpilot).
>
> Agenda:
> 1. Introductions
> 2. Getting ubuntu membership, how the locoteam can help
> 3. Existing subgroups and projects
> 4. New projects
> 5. Partnerships with existing Linux/FLOSS orgs
>
> Present: (Name/IRC nick/Location)
> Corey Burger/Burgundavia/Victoria BC
> Cody A.W. Somerville/somerville32/Fredericton NB
> Cathy Martens/dennister/Toronto ON
> Tony Yarusso/tonyyarusso/Peterborough ON (for uni, but from
> Minnesota actually)
> Matthew Lloyd/ Phoenix7477/Edmonton AB
> Justin Wong/stryderjzw/Vancouver BC
> Brian Burger/Madpilot/Victoria BC
> Jamon Camisso/jamonation/Toronto, ON
> Kyle Vanditmars/kylevan/Surrey BC
> Ben Hearsum/bhearsum/Thornill ON
>
> Later Arrivals:
> Dan/dabaR/Winnipeg MB
> Dave Sullivan/lophylap (aka lophyte)/Toronto ON
> Andrew Hunter/rexbron/Toronto ON
> Daniel Robitaille/robitaille/Victoria BC
> Chuck Short/zul/Ottawa ON
>
> I think that's everyone, if I missed your name in the log, please let me
> know!
>
> Corey opened the meeting with a discussion of getting Ubuntu Membership,
> what it invovles and why it's something to aim for, with some related talk
> about what sorts of things you could do to get membership. There are
> currently not many Ubuntu Members amongst the Ubuntu Canada group, but one
> of the purposes of a LoCo Team is to get more people more involved in
> Ubuntu, and involvement leads, generally, to Membership.
>
> There was a request for the ShipIt stats for Canada, which Corey can
> apparently get for us. It was noted that ShipIt has become less generous
> about requests for large lots.
>
> When (hopefully at the next Community Council meeting[0]) the -ca LoCo
> becomes an Official team, we'll be getting a large shipment of ShipIt CDs -
> 500, apparently. Folks interested in getting some should wait for an
> announcment on the mailing list.
>
> The need for posters/handouts/postcards/etc was mentioned, and mostly
> referred to Ubuntu Marketing - these are the sorts of projects that can
> benefit all LoCo Teams, not just -ca, so if we do it inside the Marketing
> team, we'll help even more people.
>
> There are several conferences coming up in Canada that could be of interest
> to Ubuntu Canada; Corey has started a list of them on the wiki[1]
>
> The difficulty of reaching rural computer users was mentioned; Cathy Martens
> mentioned that there are some good resources from Volunteer Canada & Imagine
> Canada on this issue (a common problem for all volunteer orgs).
>
> There was a brief sideline on lobbying MPs & government about FLOSS -
> working thru CLUE's [2] existing programs seems to be the best way to do
> this.
>
> The meeting wrapped up (after almost 90 minutes!) with some talk about -ca
> themed wallpapers or other artwork, a mention of the Ojibwe translation
> project being started for Ubuntu, some talk about the upcoming CUTE conf. in
> Ontario, and some offtopic political chatter.
>
> Next meeting is TBA, but tentatively set for 2nd Saturday in January, same
> time & channel. See the mailing list for more info.
>
> I've left huge swathes of the discussion out of these minutes, but I think I
> got the high points and basics. Please feel free to supply additions,
> corrections or spellchecking as needed.
>
> It was great to have such a good turnout to our first LoCo Meeting - thanks
> to everyone who showed up, and hope to see even more next time!
>
> -- Brian (Madpilot on IRC)
> ubuntu-ca.org
>
> Feetnotes:
> 0. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityCouncilAgenda
> 1. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CanadianTeam/Conferences
> 2. http://cluecan.ca/
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