[Ubuntu Chicago] Ubuntu-us-chicago Digest, Vol 9, Issue 3

Fri Mar 2 19:31:05 GMT 2007

I'm all about Chicago, but a larger group will work too. I'm willing
to travel for meetings and stuff, so long as it is a resonable
distance and price.

On 3/2/07, ubuntu-us-chicago-request at lists.ubuntu.com
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>    1. Re:  Ubuntu Illinois Proposal (Man-Chicken)
>    2.  Ubuntu Illinois Reasoning (Rich Johnson)
>    3. Re:  Ubuntu Illinois Reasoning (Freddy Martinez)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 20:56:56 -0600
> From: Man-Chicken <manchicken at notsosoft.net>
> Subject: Re: [Ubuntu Chicago] Ubuntu Illinois Proposal
> To: ubuntu-us-chicago at lists.ubuntu.com
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> I would like to offer my house in Champaign as a regular meeting location for
> this group.  Manchicken's house of hacking would be open for meetings and
> storage for meetings.  I know many are far from Champaign, but I thought that
> in the interest of having a more state-wide LoCo, Champaign--being smack-dab
> in the middle of the state--would be an excellent staging ground.
>
> On Thursday 01 March 2007 20:39:51 Freddy Martinez wrote:
> > Rock. As a Ubuntu Member that lives in Chicago 4 months out of the year
> > (and most of it away from there at school) I would love to see this going.
> > I'm heavily interested in the Peoria team because I live ~30 minutes away
> > from there. As Richard may know, I am all about building a LoCo and would
> > assist the Illinois team as much as I have tried to help the Chicago Team.
> > Afaik, Richard, Micheal Stemle,  and I are the only Members in Illinois,
> > (hopefully I am wrong and there are more hackers from the Land o' Lincoln).
> > Therefore I would propose adding me as a contact / leader / warlock. Also,
> > I have built a base at my school which is all about Ubuntu so I am sure I
> > can help push the LoCo here. Thoughts?
> >
> > On 3/1/07, Rich Johnson <nixternal at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > > Hey everyone!
> > >
> > > I have taken it upon myself to go ahead and propose the creation of
> > > Ubuntu Illinois. I will take this to my blog, the chi.ubuntu-us.org, as
> > > well as post
> > > to the many state universities trying to spark interest. My goal right
> > > now is
> > > to create a team with no less than 25 members, get them up to speed, and
> > > eventually elect 1 or more Ubuntu members in the state as team
> > > leadership.
> > >
> > > So if any of you have friends, family, pets, skeletons or whatever in
> > > Illinois, let them know there is a plan/proposal to create a team for the
> > > entire state of Illinois.
> > >
> > > My hopes are that I can at least get a decent group from the central
> > > portion
> > > of the state (i.e., Springfield, Peoria) and as many as possible from the
> > > southern portion of the state. I do know there are a couple of groups in
> > > the
> > > Peoria area that are interested in such team so I am hoping they will
> > > help me
> > > rock this out.
> > >
> > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IllinoisTeam
> > > https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-illinois
> > > #ubuntu-illinois >> #ubuntu-chicago
> > >
> > > PS:  How do I make Chicago a subteam of Illinois in LP?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Rich Johnson
> > > nixternal at ubuntu.com
> > > GPG Key: 0x2E2C0124
> > >
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> > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-chicago
> >
> > Best,
>
>
>
> --
> ~ Man-Chicken <><
> (A)bort, (R)etry, (I)nfluence with large hammer.
> The number of the beast - vi vi vi
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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 21:23:02 -0600
> From: Rich Johnson <nixternal at ubuntu.com>
> Subject: [Ubuntu Chicago] Ubuntu Illinois Reasoning
> To: ChicagoTeam <ubuntu-us-chicago at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Message-ID: <200703012123.05505.nixternal at ubuntu.com>
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> There is going to eventually be an Illinois team, nothing we can do about it,
> and it is something the state needs.
>
> My reasoning behind doing what I did tonight is a couple of things:
> 1) If there is going to be an Illinois team, WE (Ubuntu Chicago) will be the
> initial drivers of it, instead of someone else coming in w/o any LoCo
> experience and possibly causing a flop.
> 2) It allows us to expand. We will always be Ubuntu Chicago, but we are a part
> of the state of Illinois, so it allows us to have a larger footprint behind
> anything we may drive in the future.
> 3) A lot of members (i.e. Freddy) are college bound to the various colleges
> throughout the state, with Ubuntu Illinois, these members will be allowed to
> create sub-chapters under the Illinois title instead of the Chicago title.
> Would be weird if you were Ubuntu Chicago at Southern Illinois.
> 4) We need farmers! OK, I made this up
>
> My main reason was that if this was eventually going to happen, with my
> experience as well as all of yours, I would rather have a successfull driving
> force where eventually it can be turned over to future Illinois members.
>
> Also I am working closely on a "hush-hush" project with Ubuntu and family and
> this is part of my master plan on world domination!
>
> --
> Rich Johnson
> nixternal at ubuntu.com
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> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 21:40:03 -0600
> From: "Freddy Martinez" <freddymartinez9 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Ubuntu Chicago] Ubuntu Illinois Reasoning
> To: nixternal at ubuntu.com
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> I say go for it. I am all about Chicago. It is the city I went to school in
> (downtown and everything), I skateboard there, I eat there, most my best
> friends live there, I have family there etc. However, please realize that we
> are part of a larger Ubuntu community. Sure we are comfortable with each
> other and are friends, however, the one this we all share in common is
> Ubuntu. There are Ubuntu-ers in Germany (Asac) the Philippines (Jucato), the
> UK (Riddell) and we all work together. Therefore, I agree with Richard
> (mostly). There is always room for collaborating. This way I can get the 17
> people that I have using / interested in Kubuntu (all KDE, w00t!) on campus
> part of a larger team. I can work with the whole college, I can work with
> Western Illinois, I can work with Peoria and Galesburg. It gives us a wider
> scope and lets us with resources use them.
>
> /me waits for Nixternal to convert CPS to Ubuntu ... hopefully.
>
> On 3/1/07, Rich Johnson <nixternal at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >
> > There is going to eventually be an Illinois team, nothing we can do about
> > it,
> > and it is something the state needs.
> >
> > My reasoning behind doing what I did tonight is a couple of things:
> > 1) If there is going to be an Illinois team, WE (Ubuntu Chicago) will be
> > the
> > initial drivers of it, instead of someone else coming in w/o any LoCo
> > experience and possibly causing a flop.
> > 2) It allows us to expand. We will always be Ubuntu Chicago, but we are a
> > part
> > of the state of Illinois, so it allows us to have a larger footprint
> > behind
> > anything we may drive in the future.
> > 3) A lot of members (i.e. Freddy) are college bound to the various
> > colleges
> > throughout the state, with Ubuntu Illinois, these members will be allowed
> > to
> > create sub-chapters under the Illinois title instead of the Chicago title.
> > Would be weird if you were Ubuntu Chicago at Southern Illinois.
> > 4) We need farmers! OK, I made this up
> >
> > My main reason was that if this was eventually going to happen, with my
> > experience as well as all of yours, I would rather have a successfull
> > driving
> > force where eventually it can be turned over to future Illinois members.
> >
> > Also I am working closely on a "hush-hush" project with Ubuntu and family
> > and
> > this is part of my master plan on world domination!
> >
> > --
> > Rich Johnson
> > nixternal at ubuntu.com
> > GPG Key: 0x2E2C0124
> >
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> >
> >
>
> Best,
> --
> Freddy Martinez
> Kubuntu. Linux for human beings.
> www.chi.ubuntu-us.org
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