[Ubuntu Chicago] Team Meetings & Scheduling

[Jim Campbell]

Here's my notes:

On 5/10/07, Rich Johnson <nixternal at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> 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.


Yeah, I agree.  We need to better organize our meetings, and we're close . .
.  I was just in touch with Chad yesterday about setting up the Calendar
plugin for Drupal so that we can have our regularly scheduled meetings
listed on there.  He said he'd contact you, but because we just chatted
online last night, he likely hadn't yet done so yet.  It would be good if we
could set that up.

    - Saturdays, they suck for me.


Yeah, we do need you at these at these.   If not only because of your
liason-ship-ness, because you know a lot about the *buntus and the
gnulintux.

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.


Everyone needs to move into the city.   =)  Seriously, that would be nice,
but alternating between the city and burbs is something we all want to do .
. .

So either do 12, 6, or 4 meetings a year.


What about 8 or 9?  At our last meeting, we talked about having meetings
roughly every six weeks.  We thought that would work well.

I have 1 location locked down for
> the rest of the year in Glen Ellyn. The space is more than accomodating.


You down with C.O.D?   Yeah, you know me.

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.


Patrick's work location thing sounds good for city meetings.  And if we have
our next meeting at COD, then Patrick's office should be set up in time for
the meeting after that.

4) Team Responsibilities
>     1) Advocating Ubuntu - this means marketing. Your number one goal in a
>
> LoCo team is to push Ubuntu to the masses.


Even though I'm not a marketing whiz, I'll try to be open to the marketing
stuff.  I don't feel like I'm in a spot where I could take on any sort of
lead role with this at this time, though.

    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.


Agreed!  I'm always kind of flattered when people find our mailing list and
ask for support on it.  I don't think I'll be giving out my phone number,
but giving out an email address, our IRC channel, and our mailing list info
with each CD is a great idea  . . .

   3) Translations - ummm, I would hate to see anything translated into
> Chicagoan. That would be damn scary :)


Click over dere which yer mouse.  =)

5) Team Goals
>     1) We need to spec out how we should advocate.


Yes . . .

    2) We need to come up with some sort of support offering. Or really, how
>
> can we offer support better to the community.


I'd be interested in talking about this and seeing what others had in mind .
. . I think that Geek Time factors into this because we need for all of us
to be geeky enough to offer support.

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.


Yeah, there's an interest in collaborating on a project, and also doing some
group learning activities.  Whichever project we choose, I think we need to
be sure that it allows for participation from all of our members . . .  If
you can code it, awesome.  If not, you can help out with documentation,
testing, etc . . .

Individuals had offered to give talks about different areas of interest.  We
just need to set it up on the wiki and have people sign up to do talks at
particular meetings.

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.


It sounds like things would work well to put chi-ubuntu and CoDLUG together
for some meetings.  The CoDLUG meetings go from 10-4, though, right?  That
seems like a long time, and to add chi-ubuntu onto it would be too long.


This was a lot to cover . . .   :)

Jim

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jwcampbell at gmail.com
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