I say go for it. I am <span style="font-weight: bold;">all</span> 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
<span style="font-style: italic;">Ubuntu</span>. 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.
<br><br>/me waits for Nixternal to convert CPS to Ubuntu ... hopefully. <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;">There is going to eventually be an Illinois team, nothing we can do about it,
<br>and it is something the state needs.<br><br>My reasoning behind doing what I did tonight is a couple of things:<br>1) If there is going to be an Illinois team, WE (Ubuntu Chicago) will be the<br>initial drivers of it, instead of someone else coming in w/o any LoCo
<br>experience and possibly causing a flop.<br>2) It allows us to expand. We will always be Ubuntu Chicago, but we are a part<br>of the state of Illinois, so it allows us to have a larger footprint behind<br>anything we may drive in the future.
<br>3) A lot of members (i.e. Freddy) are college bound to the various colleges<br>throughout the state, with Ubuntu Illinois, these members will be allowed to<br>create sub-chapters under the Illinois title instead of the Chicago title.
<br>Would be weird if you were Ubuntu Chicago at Southern Illinois.<br>4) We need farmers! OK, I made this up<br><br>My main reason was that if this was eventually going to happen, with my<br>experience as well as all of yours, I would rather have a successfull driving
<br>force where eventually it can be turned over to future Illinois members.<br><br>Also I am working closely on a "hush-hush" project with Ubuntu and family and<br>this is part of my master plan on world domination!
<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>