[Ubuntu Chicago] Ubuntu Illinois Reasoning

[Max Luebbe]

I'm all for it.

To be honest, this may be a plan that allows us to better concentrate our
efforts.
I live in the city, and think its the best place on earth. (I don't know if
any of you have noticed yet, but the chi-python group I belong to won the
bid to bring pycon 2008 to chicago - It's going to be around o'hare)

BUT

ManChicken will have access to some of the best geeks in the country by
being in the same town as UIUC.

Freddy has access to ISU and Knox it looks like.

I'd personally be willing to step up to a larger role in the city itself,
because that pretty much what I'm limited to. I don't drive for ecological
reasons, and rely on the buses, trains and my shoes to get me anywhere I
need to be.

An illinois group could direct the efforts of the smaller regional teams and
better direct our resources.

What do you think?

Unrelated, Freddy seems to skate - don't know if anyone else here does, but
if you need decks, trucks or whatever let me know because I manage the web
business for the biggest shop in the state. On that note, we're planning on
expanding and I'm playing around with the idea of making a webcast show
about trusting a 22 year old who understands tech to build up your web
business in 6 months (before the next snowboard season starts). I've got an
empty storefront and a budgt to work with, getting pretty excited. I'm going
to name drop OSS left and right, give tutorials, use desktop linux etc. Am
planning on producing the show with open source as well. Details to follow
on this Propaganda project of mine.
-Max

On 3/1/07, Freddy Martinez <freddymartinez9 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-chicago
> >
> >
> >
>
> Best,
> --
> Freddy Martinez
> Kubuntu. Linux for human beings.
> www.chi.ubuntu-us.org
> </message>
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