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

[Pablo Rubianes]

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.


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.

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