our impending reapproval

[Keith Drummond]

Hi Mike,

I will not attempt messing with the editing on the site, would be just
'trial and error', and we have a far better qualified individuals within
our ranks.

Suggestions for the sections to be filled out;

'Global Ubuntu Participation';

- Maybe reiterate conference work, or just move it to that section
altogether rather then having it in with the CD/DVD distribution as they
were significant international conferences which will be continuing on into
the foreseeable future.

- I am sure the community in general is active across launchpad, Ubuntu
Forums, Ask Ubuntu etc., so maybe mention more broadly our ongoing
active participation within the broader global Ubuntu community via those
mediums? Or something to that affect.

'Focusing on the Future';

- Its an exciting time for Ubuntu, just before the roll-out of the Ubuntu
Touch for phones and tablets which should give Ubuntu a global bump and
certainly send some looking for a local Ubuntu community. Might be some
fresh faces who have never even looked at the desktop flavours, so we
should be ready to embrace those when they come along and be sure they can
find us.

- Maybe we can add some honesty about ceasing the CD/DVD distribution? Its
generally a nightmare and for those that can not download the .iso then I
am sure some of us will help plug that gap when it arises.

- We should try to raise our social networking profile, even if it is just
more regular tweets/dents/social media postings in our best "I'm not dead
yet" shout from the cart.

- Again, reiterate our footprint on college campuses, even if just through
the computer/tech societies.

- REGULAR meetings. Even if it is just a standing monthly IRC meeting (is
there a quorum requirement? If so call it a hangout if we fall short). If
nothing else, will allow lurkers to see what's going on and let a few of us
keep a finger on the pulse. To broaden our reach the monthly meeting could
be held simultaneously with a Google Hangout, much like the new VUDS model.
I should add that we can always schedule 'off months' over December and
January.

Will stop the rambling now.

With respect to the IRC meeting on the 16th, I should be able to log in for
that and is that ok? Or is just for those special Ubuntu Member types? ;-)

Thanks again for the time and effort you put in Mike.

Best regards,
Keith Drummond


On 25 June 2013 13:52, Mike O'Donohue <airurando at eircom.net> wrote:

>  Hi All,
>
> While our LoCo activity remains low there are still a few warm cinders in
> the fire and there is certainly a iot of good will being expressed towards
> remaining approved.  Based on this I think it is worthwhile for us to see
> reapproval.  Of course there is significant discussion within the larger
> community around the term 'approved' and the outcome of those discussions
> isn't clear but for now the standard reapproval process still applies and
> because of that I have thrown together a draft of our wiki reapproval
> application for 2013 .
>
> Our approved status is due to expire at the end of June and we hope to
> apply for reapproval at the next LoCo Council meeting which is scheduled to
> be held in the #ubuntu-meeting channel on the freenode irc network on 16
> Jul 13 at 20:00 UTC (21:00 Irish time if I am right).
>
> Our application can be found at:
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IrishTeam/IrishTeamReApprovalApplication2013
>
> A text formatting issues exists at the top of the page (clearly visible)
> any help fixing that would be appreciated.
>
> Other sections are yet to be started:
>
> 'Global Ubuntu Participation'
>
> And
>
> 'Focusing on the Future'
>
>
> I'd appreciate as many proofreaders, format fixers and content
> contributors as possible for this application.  I want to honestly throw
> our cards down and see where they fall.  We are at a low ebb and I want to
> see if the LoCo Council still  feel we are worthy of maintaining an
> approved status.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Mike O'Donohue.
>
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