[ubuntu-arizona] Newsletter

[John Crawford]

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Welcome to the Ubuntu-Arizona Weekly Newsletter, Issue #10 for the week 
August 01 - August 08, 2007.

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      Wednesday-August 1, 2007

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            Arizona Loco Forum Link: ArizonaTeam
            <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam>

Next meeting: Sunday August 05, 2007 9:00PM Server: Freenode: IRC 
Channel #ubuntu-arizona

Last Sunday was a slow meeting as there were not many people in 
attendance. However we had a guest visit the meeting, greg_g who was 
from another Loco team and wanted to see how we ran our meetings. Also, 
we had a new member, paul928, who makes our second member that lives in 
Yuma. Paul928 has been using Ubuntu for quite some time, every since 
Warty was released!

John received an email from Mathew Helmke on Sunday. Mathew is a Ubuntu 
Forums Administrator living in Morocco, but he is originally from 
Arizona and even though he is not living here now, he hopes to return 
one day. He would like to become an "Unofficial Member" of our team if 
you all agree. I know Mathew from the forums and he is a really good 
person. We had a vote with the members that were at the meeting and no 
one had a problem with Mathew becoming an 'official member'.

Our team has register for the "Software Freedom Day 07". Software 
Freedom Day is a grassroots effort to educate the public about the 
importance of software freedom. At future meetings we will discuss what 
our team can do to participate. Here is the link so that you can reed 
further about SFD: [WWW] Software Freedom Day 
<http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/>.

Ian has finalized our account at CafePress 
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CafePress>. Here is the link: [WWW] Cafe Press 
<http://www.cafepress.com/ubuntu_arizona/> Please note that the 
merchandise has not been marked up, but is at cost. Now we can advertise 
our team walking down the street or drinking a hot coffee. Thanks Ian 
for taking care of this for us!

The Tucson Members had a great meet up at our local Bookman's Store last 
night. I will go into what we discussed later in the Team Approval 
Portion of our agenda.

Last little announcement, I don't know how many of you look at the 
Digg.com site, but John passed me a link that was on Digg.com where it 
talked about Ubuntu Loco teams just going crazy with support. So be 
prepared to meet many new people in the upcoming weeks and say hi to the 
new, incoming people when you see them in the IRC room. John will be 
able to into much more detail at the August 5th meeting.

Summary of last meeting July 29, 2007

The first thing that was talked about was the newsletter team. As I have 
been a little late getting this out as getting ready for school seems to 
be harder than school itself. I would like to apologize for not getting 
the newsletter out on Wednesday's, but after this one I will have more 
free time to get it out on time. Also Ian suggested that there should be 
more content within the newsletter, and I would agree with him on that. 
We had a member step up and wants to help add more to the newsletter, 
thanks to Marty we should be able to add more articles and make this 
publication more interesting! Stand by for updates and new items that 
should be coming out in the next few newsletters.

We are still working hard to get Team Approval and all members that are 
either new or have yet to do so, please look at the following links for 
our Local Ubuntu Team. The first site [WWW] Team Approval Outline 
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam/Teams/Approval_Outline/> is where 
you can see the goals that our group needs to meet in order to get team 
approval from the national Ubuntu group. The second site [WWW] Team 
Approval Resources 
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam/Teams/Approval_Outline/Resources/> 
is where you will find all the different areas we need people to 
volunteer to help get the local team ready for approval. Any help big or 
small would be appreciated.

We are also working on getting CD's and informational flyers out to 
people to spread the word about Ubuntu, SloggerKhan 
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SloggerKhan> is going to try and have a 
prototype of the flyer ready by next week for the whole team to look at, 
comment on and see if that is something we want to use. And we are still 
in need of people to help burn CD's.

Thank you all for your help and support and lets keep up the good work.

-- 
John Crawford
johnc4510-cox at ubuntu.com

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