[Ubuntu-PH] Proposal: Some changes to UBUNTU-PH as a community

thaddy lozada thadphole at gmail.com
Tue Aug 1 01:47:10 UTC 2006


Hi Jerome,

Im currently based in Tampa, Florida Im willing to help in any possible way.

thad

On 7/27/06, Jerome Gotangco <jgotangco at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Hope all is well in the community. At the moment, we have a revamped
> website and starting to take shape with the help of some people.
>
> I'm sending this email to present a proposal I've discussed with some
> people in the #ubuntu-ph channel on freenode IRC regarding the group
> and how to improve community involvement. So far I'm getting positive
> responses so I'm pushing this now via email.
>
> As most of you know, I am based in Quezon City as well as some people
> visibly active in the community, but in my travels outside the city, I
> have met a lot of people using Ubuntu and organizing various
> activities in their own respective communities that even exceed those
> happening in the capital region.
>
> So obviously, UBUNTU-PH != Greater Manila Area.
>
> This is what I would like to cultivate and grow fruit in the future. I
> would like to see people active in their local community get the
> exposure from the global ubuntu community and eventually have people
> contribute to development of free software in general. Most people
> have the skills to make it possible; they just don't know where to
> start and having a tight local community can translate to a lot of
> things in unlocking the potential of people.
>
> I'm proposing that we split UBUNTU-PH into three major subgroups:
> Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. It's possible to have minor subgroups
> within major subgroups (Like Ubuntu Zamboanga be under Ubuntu
> Mindanao) as Launchpad makes it possible. These major subgroups are
> distinct from each other, may organize their own activities, and have
> a representative get author access rights to the Ubuntu-ph.org website
> as well as add more people into Planet.
>
> In turn, recognized ubuntu-members can act as mentors on guiding these
> groups/people on how to be more involved into development of Ubuntu
> itself with the goal of having more technical people involved in free
> software development and non-technical people involved in advocacy,
> artwork, marketing, etc.
>
> We would like to make this community-based as much as possible. We may
> be affiliated with various organizations that may or may not have
> Ubuntu as part of their business strategy - that is fine as long as
> business interests do not get into the community itself.. What we
> would like to see is have a very healthy free software ecosystem based
> on Ubuntu with a very good community of users and supporters.
>
> I'm also calling for an IRC meeting on August 1, 2006 at 8pm (+8UTC)
> in the #ubuntu-ph IRC channel on freenode so we could discuss more of
> this as a community. If an IRC meeting is not possible, we may also do
> a Y!M group chat for those not able to do via IRC.
>
> Best,
>
> Jerome G.
>
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