[loco-contacts] Meetup.com offering for LoCo teams

[David Planella]

Thanks everyone for the many replies and the feedback. If I understand it
correctly, the summary so far is:

- Most of the teams who have replied are favourable to using meetup.com
- The experience of those who have used seems to be that it has contributed
to attendance to events and in increasing visibility to LoCo activities
outside the Ubuntu sphere
- There are concerns about meetup.com not being open source, but it is seen
as another tool to promote LoCo team events, and in better light than
social media accounts (e.g. Facebook) some of the teams are already using
- Some suggested the LoCo portal (with kudos to the LTP developers here)
needs to be more widely promoted.

To reply directly to some other points raised:

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 5:57 PM, Pablo Rubianes <pablorubianes-uy at ubuntu.com
> wrote:

> Hi, as LoCo Council Member I already been discussing this proposal, and I
> can't say I'm against or in favour of it, as it could be useful but I don't
> see it as a solution, and I think that the Community Donations Program or
> Canonical money could be better spent in more swag or sponsoring events so
> the LoCo people don't have to spend their money on them.
>
>
Note that both of these points (providing materials and sponsoring events)
is something that is happening already. Only a minimal number of donation
requests are being declined every quarter, mostly because they are not
directly related to promoting or contributing to Ubuntu. The vast majority
of donation requests are being accepted.


>
> Mainly I think the LoCo Portal is way underused, not properly visible for
> new people (You have to throw the whole main page of the community page to
> get a link to the page that has the link).
> This is when we fail, the first thing we need from new people is joining
> LoCos, to know people and then contribute, the way we do it at the moment
> just gets individual contributors with no sense of community.
>
> Also Benjamin has a point on what it says about the decline of activity,
> maybe instead of fixing something that is opt-in as the LoCo portal, with
> other opt-in option, we need to promote the LoCo Portal, make more visible,
> so that way everybody use it, as at the moment not everyone does.
>

Regardless of the outcome of the proposal, promoting the LoCo Portal is
something we want to continue doing, and I would encourage everyone who
wants to contribute with a plan or suggestions to achieve this to submit
them.

Cheers,
David.


>
> Pablo
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 12:31 PM Ron Swift <rswift at swiftstaffing.com>
> wrote:
>
>> David, we just discussed this at our Sept 26 Maryland Loco meeting and
>> were planning to sign up for a Meetup.com account. Some other Linux User
>> Groups in our area are using it and report that it has helped to increase
>> attendance at their meetings.
>> So the Maryland Loco team is definitely agreeable to your proposal and
>> would recommend that other Loco consider it.
>> Thanks
>>
>> Ron Swift
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>> From: "David Planella" <david.planella at ubuntu.com>
>> To: "ubuntu-community-team" <ubuntu-community-team at lists.ubuntu.com>,
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>> Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 11:06:59 AM
>> Subject: [loco-contacts] Meetup.com offering for LoCo teams
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> After having discussed it with the Community and LoCo Councils, I would
>> like to present a proposal to offer meetup.com subscription to our
>> Ubuntu local communities:
>>
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeams/MeetupProposal
>>
>> As community and LoCo team members, at this point I'd like to ask you for
>> your input and thoughts on how to move forward with this proposal.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> David.
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