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?
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/1/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Rich Johnson</b> <<a href="mailto:nixternal@ubuntu.com">nixternal@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hey everyone!<br><br>I have taken it upon myself to go ahead and propose the creation of Ubuntu<br>Illinois. I will take this to my blog, the <a href="http://chi.ubuntu-us.org">chi.ubuntu-us.org</a>, as well as post<br>to the many state universities trying to spark interest. My goal right now is
<br>to create a team with no less than 25 members, get them up to speed, and<br>eventually elect 1 or more Ubuntu members in the state as team leadership.<br><br>So if any of you have friends, family, pets, skeletons or whatever in
<br>Illinois, let them know there is a plan/proposal to create a team for the<br>entire state of Illinois.<br><br>My hopes are that I can at least get a decent group from the central portion<br>of the state (i.e., Springfield, Peoria) and as many as possible from the
<br>southern portion of the state. I do know there are a couple of groups in the<br>Peoria area that are interested in such team so I am hoping they will help me<br>rock this out.<br><br><a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IllinoisTeam">
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IllinoisTeam</a><br><a href="https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-illinois">https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-illinois</a><br>#ubuntu-illinois >> #ubuntu-chicago<br><br>PS: How do I make Chicago a subteam of Illinois in LP?
<br><br>--<br>Rich Johnson<br><a href="mailto:nixternal@ubuntu.com">nixternal@ubuntu.com</a><br>GPG Key: 0x2E2C0124<br><br>--<br>Ubuntu-us-chicago mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Ubuntu-us-chicago@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-us-chicago@lists.ubuntu.com
</a><br><a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-chicago">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-chicago</a><br><br><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all">Best,<br>-- <br>Freddy Martinez
<br>Kubuntu. Linux for human beings.<br><a href="http://www.chi.ubuntu-us.org">www.chi.ubuntu-us.org</a><br></message>