[Ubuntu-US-CA] Meeting frequency

[charlie]

hey guys. I'll address each thing separately here.

Nathan:

meetings: I think having one monthly meeting's good for now since 
participation has been low like you said and I've noticed it as well. I 
know for myself it'll be ok since I'm about to start school in September 
and I'm not really sure how busy I'm going to be but I should still be 
able to have time for a monthly meeting. Per your statement about having 
meetings just to have them is understandable. Maybe we should start a 
new process now where we only have a meeting when there's an absolute 
need in order to get a live vote or something. Just an idea. Or if 
something does come up on the agenda from someone to discuss, we can do 
it via the list or IRC.

I know I've got that tshirt design (with more coming) that I'm looking 
to sell and take the proceeds and donate it and that's one way to get 
noticed more. My head's so full of ideas and I want to run with them all 
and get this Ubuntu machine humming loudly. lol

One of the biggest things I love to do is promote something I love if 
I've got enough to do so. What I mean is this. If I'm educated enough 
about something where I can talk about it and explain it well enough to 
get some interest going, then I'm very stoked. If I've got merchandise 
and materials to either sell, give away, hand out, then that's a good 
thing as well and I think that's where we need to focus; the promotional 
work. Just a simple sticker could even get some interest going. I know 
we've got Ubuntu Hours we can do and I'm trying to get back to that.

Promotion's big to me because I've been in the world of music for a long 
time and I know what it takes to get the word out about something (be it 
a band, concert, festival, album, whatever) even if it means having a 
free concert. But, in the world of software and Ubuntu specifically, 
there should be an interest in doing Ubuntu Hours, Installfests and even 
conventions of our own. Perhaps not as big as SCALE but something like 
that because I see and read about Comic Cons nearly every week and I 
think that might be a great way to promote Ubuntu. Like the San Diego 
Comic Con which seems to be the largest of them all and if we can get a 
booth there for our team, WOW!

I'm going to go call the Apple Valley city hall and inquire about the 
convention center here and ask how much it'd be to rent it out for a day 
or two for a mini-convention. I know that's going to be a task as big as 
the universe but I'm really wanting to do something like. Maybe even 
have an old-school LAN party there.

Phil:

slack: I'm not a user of that service and I'd be willing to check it out 
but I'm more 'old school' and prefer IRC since I've used it since the '90s.


But let me ask this: do we have social media accounts for the team? If 
not, I'd be happy handling that since I'm on the computer and my phone a 
lot during the day anyway. I'd love to see us on Instagram, twitter, 
google+, and (i hate to say it), facebook. maybe even MySpace.

what do you guys think of my ideas?

On 08/22/2018 07:24 PM, Philip Ballew wrote:
> What about a slack channel? Many people are logged in to slack for 
> work and can then keep the channel open to hang out there.
>
> Thanks,
> Phil
>
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2018, 19:10 Nathan Haines <nhaines at ubuntu.com 
> <mailto:nhaines at ubuntu.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi team,
>
>     We've always operated the California LoCo with the idea that most
>     things
>     are discussed via the mailing list and online IRC meetings were
>     held in
>     real-time to sort of summarize and verify any consensus that had
>     formed
>     when it came to making important decisions.
>
>     In the past few years, participation both on-list and on IRC has
>     dropped
>     precipitously.
>
>     I'd like to bring this up for discussion.  There are really two
>     issues
>     at hand.
>
>     The first, is that meetings do take time and interfere with other
>     plans.
>       Meetings haven't been well-attended for some time now, and I don't
>     think having meetings just to have them are very helpful. Would it
>     be a
>     good idea to reduce meetings to monthly?
>
>     Second, of course, is that participation and activity are very low.
>     This is a global problem across the Ubuntu Local Community Team
>     landscape.  But we shouldn't take it for granted, either.  If
>     there are
>     issues that need to be addressed, or improvements to be made, it's
>     important that I hear from you so that we can all work together to
>     make
>     things better.
>
>     Let me know if there's anything that you think we could do to help
>     make
>     the California team a more interesting thing to be involved in.
>
>     -- 
>     Nathan Haines
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