<div dir="ltr">Unless people are already involved in the Ubuntu community, they will not know to look for the portal to find groups. In an effort to be an outward facing community, meetup is a much better solution that the use of the Ubuntu only portal. I assume that we can link to the portal on meetup though if a group so chooses as well.<br><br>Philip Ballew</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Charles Profitt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ubuntu@cprofitt.com" target="_blank">ubuntu@cprofitt.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br>
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On Wed, 2015-09-30 at 08:16 -0700, Benjamin Kerensa wrote:<br>
> I do not think the platform is the issue I think there is a genuine<br>
> decline of interest in Ubuntu.<br>
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</span>I think there is a change in the 'type' of people were are looking to<br>
service in the LoCo community. Non-technical end users are more likely<br>
to find local communities on Facebook and Meetup vs. the loco portal.<br>
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> I think how community is engaged with and recognized needs to be<br>
> evaluated. If you want to increase participation then invest in<br>
> recognition.<br>
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</span>These ideas may help maintain interest in already engaged community<br>
members, but not sure they attract new people to the community.<br>
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