Cork users group

[Steffen Franke]

@Rory Thank you for the animating words; we will see ... the time will
tell...

@ Laura No worries, there isn't an idea for a Cork LoCo, I  hope to find
some guys down here to meet and chat about our leisure... 

Regards,

Steffen 



On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 09:35 -0700, laura at lczajkowski.com wrote:
> There is no problem with meet ups and events. Calling it s cork loco
> is however a issue. We all operate under the official recognized
>  Irish loco. Even in the UK or France they all operate under the one
> umbrella.  I give this advice with my loco council hat on. 
> 
> Laura
> 
> Sent from my HTC
> 
> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "Rory McCann" <rory at technomancy.org>
> Date: Thu, May 6, 2010 17:24
> Subject: Cork users group
> To: <program.option.argument at gmail.com>
> Cc: <ubuntu-ie at lists.ubuntu.com>
> 
> 
> On 03/05/10 22:26, Steffen Franke wrote:
> > Hi Ubuntu Folks,
> > 
> > I would like to bring an Ubuntu Cork users group into being. My
> forum
> > name is omalley - real name Steffen. Running Ubuntu since 2008,
> before
> > this I did use SuSe 7.x+ occasionally. 
> > 
> > Anyone from Cork/Co. Cork out there who would be interested?
> > 
> > Regards,
> 
> Go for it!
> 
> Cork is big enough.  I think there have always been new people at all
> of
> the events in Dublin. There are always people who come out of the
> woodwork and turn up. There are more Linux/Ubuntu people out there
> than
> you'd think. It's impossible to know beforehand that it won't work.
> Built it and they will come.
> 
> I don't think you need to worry about 'being offical', don't get
> distracted by beaurocracies, focus on building a community.
> Communities
> can be small. 3 people who only met through Ubuntu, who go for a
> monthly
> pint are a community. If you can do that, then you've just created
> "Cork
> LoCo".
> 
> My advise is to just do it. Pick something you'd like to see happen
> (pint of the day, ubuntu hour, conference, geeknic, release party,
> etc.)
> and just do it. Pick a date and time, and email people. In my
> experience
> people will just turn up on the day.
> 
> If you want any Lucid CDs for events, gimmie a shout, and I'll send
> you
> some that Canonical sent us.
> 
> Best of luck!
> 
> Rory
> 
> 
> 
>