Feb 7th Ubuntu Toronto meeting suggestions

[Corey Burger]

On 2/7/07, Dave Sullivan <dave at dave-sullivan.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 February 2007 11:48, Jane Zhang wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> >
> >
> > Unfortunately I won't be able to make it to the meeting tonight. However, I
> > do want to congratulate everyone on the Microsoft Ice House Event. Perhaps
> > it was too "grass root" for some, but I think by just getting out there and
> > proudly display our passion for Linux is a huge win for us. Yay!
> >
> >
> >
> > However, there are some lessons learned that I would like to mention here:
> > (disclaimer: these are my own opinions, and in no way reflects that of the
> > group as a whole)
> >
> >
> >
> > 1.    While it's good to have impromptu events such as operation cold
> > comfort, we need to plan bigger, more high profile events as well. Software
> > Freedom Day is in Sept, why not start planning now?
>
> Good idea. I'll add it to the agenda for tonight's meeting.
>
> > 2.    At the risk of coming across as being "too Ubuntu" in our events,
> > why not get the rest of the Linux community involved? Let's all sign up for
> > the TLUG mailing list, and become more active in the greater community.
> > After all, it doesn't matter what distribution you are using/were using, we
> > are all using Free and Open Source Software are we not? Let's invite
> > another group to our events next time!
> This is true, and based on comments I've seen on the TLUG mailing list, this
> is exactly what's happening. I've added an item to tonight's agenda
> called "Ubuntu in the Greater Linux  Community" to discuss our apparent
> exclusive nature, and how we can change that.
>
> > 3.    I like being able to express my own opinions on the mailing list,
> > but as we have seen, things can be taken out of context and misquoted.
> > Instead of censoring our opinions, why not put a disclaimer of sorts as a
> > footer?  This is a mailing list for a users group, not a press release.
> I'll have to poke Corey for this one, as he's the mailing list admin.

At work, so just a quick note. I don't see the point of having a
footer on this. Andrew McKay's article was bad journalism, pure and
simple. No amount of footers, headers or giant orange flags would have
prevented it, nor similar articles in the future.

Corey