<div dir="ltr"><div>I think Grant is on to something here. It is very common for Chambers of Commerce and local politicians to look to try to promote conventions coming to their area with the hope to boost local business and tourism. Berkeley/Oakland/East Bay is very much in need of this kind of shot in the arm and I'd think that a group such as for example the Berkeley Chamber of Commerce (<a href="http://berkeleychamber.com/cms2/view.htm/2/40/953/1818/Economic%20Development+Buy%20Local%20Berkeley">http://berkeleychamber.com/cms2/view.htm/2/40/953/1818/Economic%20Development+Buy%20Local%20Berkeley</a>) would likely be excited to hear the internationally significant UDS is back for the 2nd time. We could approach them and they could likely help steer us towards an appropriate promotion. We DO want to emphasize that GNU/Linux is an enormous boon for business and EVERYONE needs to learn about it. Perhaps if Ubuntu California is reluctant as a body to do it (unclear to me as of yet), a group like Partimus might want to take the steps. </div><div>Drew </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 4:00 AM, <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-us-ca-request@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-us-ca-request@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Send Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list submissions to <a href="mailto:ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com</a> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca</a> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to <a href="mailto:ubuntu-us-ca-request@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-us-ca-request@lists.ubuntu.com</a> You can reach the person managing the list at <a href="mailto:ubuntu-us-ca-owner@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-us-ca-owner@lists.ubuntu.com</a> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Ubuntu-us-ca digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Project: Letters to our Representatives (Elizabeth Krumbach) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 17:02:06 -0800 From: Elizabeth Krumbach <<a href="mailto:lyz@ubuntu.com">lyz@ubuntu.com</a>> To: Ubuntu US California <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Project: Letters to our Representatives Message-ID: <CABesOu0M2-3s3Y50iKdJ8DQ0GF-9MRY3dLeEUyR0M=<a href="mailto:fZLNc3fQ@mail.gmail.com">fZLNc3fQ@mail.gmail.com</a>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Nathan Haines <<a href="mailto:nhaines@ubuntu.com">nhaines@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote: > UDS is a development sprint; it's not a social gathering. It's set up to > get people working world-wide on important parts of the Ubuntu project > together in one room so they can discuss and decide the focus for their work > for the upcoming development cycle. Right. While there is a community track, even this track is focused on giving action items which lead to producing results and material and isn't going to be valuable or interesting to your standard Ubuntu *user* who is not interested in contributing, let alone someone who only has a passing interest in technology on a policy level. > Inviting large numbers of non-developers who have no prior knowledge or > experience with Ubuntu or Free Software to anything other than the keynote > would seem to be unproductive, unsatisfying, and subversive to the goals of > UDS. I agree, but you do mention "anything other than the keynote" which is where I think we may have an "in" here. Ubuntu is a major player on the Internet today, and the existence of the summit in California again is something that's exciting and important, but as Peter points out, actually inviting them to the summit to attend the workshop sessions about SELinux implementation or whatnot would be useless. > If I wanted to risk hurting UDS anyway, I would at least come up with a > consensus of what UDS "might mean to" California lawmakers before > starting a letter writing campaign. So say we're just inviting some people to the first 2 hours of the summit to see the keynote, I don't think this would be harmful to UDS. But it would require volunteers to properly receive them, it would be a mess to have people spend valuable time and be completely lost. And I think coming up with a consensus as to the value of UDS is essential. Grant - perhaps the team you put together can work on this value document in a broad sense? Even if it's not used for UDS I could see the team leveraging such a document about having active Ubuntu presence in California for other things, including user-focused conferences and involvements with groups like <a href="http://opensourceforamerica.org" target="_blank">opensourceforamerica.org</a> that Jason mentioned. -- Elizabeth Krumbach // Lyz // pleia2 <a href="http://www.princessleia.com" target="_blank">http://www.princessleia.com</a> ------------------------------ -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca</a> End of Ubuntu-us-ca Digest, Vol 69, Issue 2 ******************************************* </blockquote></div> </div>