[Ubuntu Chicago] meeting notes

[Jim Campbell]

Hi All,

Here are some of my notes from Saturday's meeting.  It was good times.
Thanks to Aaron and his dad for coming there to talk with us about our team
organization and goals.

We covered some good responsibility-type information at the start of it.  I
didn't have notes on that, but here's what I can recall.  Feel free to leave
your own input as appropriate...

Primary loco point of contact:  Eddie Martinez.  Eddie's been doing a good
job of coordinating overall loco activities - making sure that we have
meetings set up, doing some coordinating with other loco teams, letting us
know about upcoming conferences.  He shouldn't have to carry all the load,
but if he's been doing good with this, why not let him continue?

Project coordinator.  Patrick, your name came up for this kind of thing.
You've got enthusiasm for these projects, man.  You had about 7 people out
for the CLC project.  Of course, we can discuss all of this further, but
would you be interested in this?

Learning coordinator: I'd be interested in this.  I like the learning aspect
of our loco team.  Just making sure that we have a presentation topic ready
for each of our different meetings, and that someone is ready to present on
it.  That's good times for me.

Other:??  Rob, Aaron?  Are either of you interested in stuff?  Please pardon
me... I don't recall what other things we covered.

Here are some notes that I did type up, though:

purpose: advocate and support for the ubuntu distro of linux in the
chicagoland
area.

core values
- freedom, of choice in the selection of your software
- learning, dedicated to the learning of technology
- community, working together to make things better.  working on a
local, national, & international scale to support linux.

b.h.a.g.  big hairy audacious goal
- what is it that we'd really like to do.  how awesome could we be.
what do we want to set our sights on?

four broad goals
- advocacy - evangelizing.  media, outreach, local orgs, to
further knowledge.
- support - supporting current and future users w/ installing, updating,
and using our software.
- outreach - finding orgs that want to use it, and assisting them in
migration.
- education - fostering team member learning.  foster educational
programs that develop member and user skills.


write tactics to support each of the four goals.
possible tools to assist us:
- freeconference call.com
- skype
- gotomeetings

pax, all.  let's talk about this stuff.

Jim
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