[Ubuntu Chicago] Team Meetings & Scheduling

deepsky99 deepsky99 at gmail.com
Thu May 10 19:24:00 BST 2007


Here here...
  I just joined the list, and am pretty new to Ubuntu as well, and Saturdays
, especially in the evil that is the city are a no go as well.  I live way
north, but evenings during the week are a lot easier to do, especially to a
suburban location.

Ill check around my area, but Glen Ellyn is a better choice being a little
more central.

Here's hoping for a suburban meeting soon!

On 5/10/07, Rich Johnson <nixternal at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> Hey everyone!
>
> I want to first say thanks to everyone for rocking out big time and
> helping
> Ubuntu Chicago along. It is great to see the many people step up and take
> a
> grasp of the reigns.
>
> I have some issues though, not major, but still some issues. I have been
> in
> meetings all week concerning the Ubuntu Community and especially LoCo
> teams.
> There is a lot of good coming our way and I can't wait for it. OK, so on
> to
> my issues:
>
> 1) The meeting scheduling has to be done differently.
>     - Posting a date and time w/o first checking around with everyone is
> not a
> good way to get a meeting going. I appreciate the fact you have organized
> with other teams in the area, but we need to make sure we can all be in
> this
> together.
>     - Saturdays, they suck for me. If you keep holding Saturday meetings,
> well
> I will never be there. Saturdays are 100% family days for me after I get
> out
> of school. Saturday evenings are church and family dinners.
>
> 2) In tow with the schedule...I need to be at these meetings, or at least
> a
> majority of them. I have to report everything we are up to in order to
> keep
> track of how we are kicking ass. If I am not there, I can't report it, and
> not reporting it causes us to get put in the back as a non-observant or a
> not-so-active team. When teams excel, they get hooked up, and we need to
> get
> hooked up. Who am I? nobody really, but I helped start the group and was
> the
> first member and the only member to get the team approved almost a year
> ago.
> I am considered the team Liason and Leader through the eyes of Canonical.
> I
> don't like the fact of being deemed a leader, but they did that. I like
> Liason better.
>
> 3) LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION!
>     - We need a minimum of 2 guaranteed locations. 1 in the city and 1 in
> the
> suburbs. We need to alternate every month or every other month between
> them.
> So either do 12, 6, or 4 meetings a year. I have 1 location locked down
> for
> the rest of the year in Glen Ellyn. The space is more than accomodating.
> One
> note about the spaces, they need to be free. We cannot expect to have
> people
> to pay to join the meeting. So keep that in mind for the city location.
> You
> need to be able to accomodate at least 25 people, but look to have room
> for
> 50. I blog it they will come. Oh and I can also post it in the Tribune
> now,
> keep an eye out for articles by Rich Johnson (that is all I can give you
> on
> that until the time arrives).
>
> 4) Team Responsibilities
>     1) Advocating Ubuntu - this means marketing. Your number one goal in a
> LoCo team is to push Ubuntu to the masses.
>     2) Supporting Ubuntu - this means on IRC, Launchpad, Mailing Lists,
> the
> forums, and even locally. If you push Ubuntu to somebody, be prepared to
> offer them support. Every CD I give out, that person gets my phone number
> and
> is allowed to call me whenever they need help. So far I have pushed more
> than
> 5,000 CDs on my own, and my cell phone bill is pushing damn near $150 a
> month
> now, and that is no data services, that is all phone, and 5 instant
> messages
> to my daughter :)
>    3) Translations - ummm, I would hate to see anything translated into
> Chicagoan. That would be damn scary :)
>
> 5) Team Goals
>     1) We need to spec out how we should advocate. Seeing as Chicago sucks
> for
> OSS events, maybe we should look at creating our own. I have the space
> available to hold hundreds if needed, oh and it is free.
>     2) We need to come up with some sort of support offering. Or really,
> how
> can we offer support better to the community.
>
> 6) Geek time!
>     - I know a lot of people are thirsty to get into hacking something. I
> would love to get together and hack with everyone. My availability sucks
> this
> summer with school and I will have my daughter for the summer. So I will
> be
> on lock down ;)
>     - I am the VP of the College of DuPage Linux Users' Group in Glen
> Ellyn. I
> have the space like I said earlier for one Sunday a month for the rest of
> the
> year, and I also have the resources to obtain larger spaces if needed with
> a
> few weeks notice at least. Everyone is more than welcome to show up at
> CoDLUG
> events and we can do some break out groups or what not. I will be doing
> some
> MOTU (Debian packaging), possibly some GNOME &/or KDE hacking (GTK and Qt
> bindings for C/C++, Python, Ruby, Java, and more), and whatever else
> anyone
> can think of. If you have a topic, come to the event and give it, you are
> totally free to do so.
>
> With all of that being said, if you can think to add anything please do.
> So
> after all of that, lets rethink Saturday meetings. Also on the 20th at
> CoDLUG
> from 10am to 4pm I will have Feisty CDs, so if you want them I suggest you
> show up. I am giving out a lot more than I anticipated and we only
> received
> 300 for the team. I have already posted 250 in a box at school this week
> and
> there isn't one CD left. Out of all of those, 4 phone calls, 1 of them to
> say
> thanks for the free CDs and stickers :) I love it!
>
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>
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