There was talk before...

[James]

Speaking of which when is the next IRC meeting? o_O

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Darcy Casselman <dscassel at gmail.com> wrote:
> We have roughly a half-dozen to a dozen people who regularly show up
> for IRC meetings and occasionally do stuff.  I guess that's "core."
>
> But they're doing their own thing.  I'm not going to say they should
> feel compelled to help administer a forum if they have no interest in
> a forum.  Plus, I'd like to get more people in the "core."  More's the
> better.  Best way to do that, as I see it, is hand out a little
> responsibility and see how they handle it.
>
> (Not that aspiring Ubuntu advocates need to be handed a job.  If you
> see something that needs to be done, do it!  If you don't know how or
> need something, ask!)
>
> Darcy.
>
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Tek Ang <rugbeeprop at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> How many 'core' team member do we have?
>> And if I may suggest, that we start with the 'core' and once everything is
>> up and running, we can figure out how many admins do we need, etc etc etc.
>> This way, we are not holding up the starting up of the forum.
>> In the past, I started a fan page on facebook group for Indonesian Rugby
>> Team (now it is the official team page). I got in touch with the actual team
>> members and added a few of the main contact onto the admin roles. And now,
>> they have enough (about 10 or so) admins that will ensure the continuation
>> of the page.
>> Tek
>> ________________________________
>> From: Darcy Casselman <dscassel at gmail.com>
>> To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> Sent: Wed, October 13, 2010 10:40:10 AM
>> Subject: Re: There was talk before...
>>
>> That's something I'm hoping we can avoid over time.  But we have to
>> start somewhere.
>>
>> One of the jobs of the "administrators" should be to find recruit new
>> administrators to keep it going.  I'm hoping we can get these things
>> (the forum, the website, other projects) growing organically so they
>> don't have to be centrally managed.  Not chaos, just decentralized.  I
>> don't want to have just one "LoCo Contact" anymore.  Lots of people
>> should have keys to that castle.
>>
>> But it's up to people to step up and make sure the things they want to
>> see get done get done.
>>
>> Darcy.
>>
>> 2010/10/13 James <james2432 at gmail.com>:
>>> That's what I am saying, people that receive admin should be very
>>> active/devoted people, because if you lose 1 or 2 due to inactivity
>>> it's not bad, but when you loose 4 or more then you are starting to
>>> have a problem(chasing people around to get stuff done), which kind of
>>> reminds me of the LoCo website(before the move to the new host) where
>>> you had to contact someone at the admin for them to change it
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Ralph Janke <txwikinger at ubuntu.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>  Well.. administrator should not be seen as a title or privilege, but as
>>>> a responsibility. I do not care about the ratio, because it is not about
>>>> authority,
>>>> but it is about accessibility. If you have to chase people that have no
>>>> interest any more
>>>> in order to get things done. it is not good. If access is shouldered on
>>>> a wider
>>>> base, you get things done. That is what it is about in the end!
>>>>
>>>> - Ralph
>>>>
>>>> On 10/13/2010 09:56 AM, James wrote:
>>>>> but then again not every user should be admin, we'll have to find a
>>>>> good ratio of people to risk of losing all admins due to
>>>>> inactivity..reminds me of bad times in statistics class *shivers*
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Ralph Janke<txwikinger at ubuntu.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>  Please get more than one administrator... we should have as many as
>>>>>> possible to
>>>>>> prevent the issues we have with the legacy stuff.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - Ralph
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 10/13/2010 12:48 AM, Darcy Casselman wrote:
>>>>>>> It's my understanding that we just need to ask and we can get a forum
>>>>>>> set up.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> However, we will need some trustworthy people to volunteer to
>>>>>>> administer the forum before we can go ahead.  You interested, Mark?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Darcy.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 11:06 PM, Mark Ueki
>>>>>>> Mina<themarker0 at hotmail.com>    wrote:
>>>>>>>> About getting a forum for us, so us newer generation users have a
>>>>>>>> place to
>>>>>>>> talk. :P
>>>>>>>> (the above is a joke, since it did seem from the conversation
>>>>>>>> beforehand the
>>>>>>>> older were less interested in the forum, thinking the mailing list
>>>>>>>> still
>>>>>>>> does the job)
>>>>>>>> Any idea what happened to that? I understand Midterms are soon, so
>>>>>>>> some of
>>>>>>>> the university/College students might be busy, but any updates?
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