Here's my notes:  <br><br>On 5/10/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Rich Johnson</b> <<a href="mailto:nixternal@ubuntu.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">nixternal@ubuntu.com</a> > wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 1) The meeting scheduling has to be done differently.<br>    - Posting a date and time w/o first checking around with everyone is not a<br>good way to get a meeting going. I appreciate the fact you have organized<br>with other teams in the area, but we need to make sure we can all be in this <br>together.</blockquote><div><br>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.  </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">    - Saturdays, they suck for me. </blockquote><div><br>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. <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">3) LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION!<br>    - We need a minimum of 2 guaranteed locations. 1 in the city and 1 in the <br>suburbs. We need to alternate every month or every other month between them.</blockquote><div><br>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 . . . <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">So either do 12, 6, or 4 meetings a year. </blockquote><div><br>What about 8 or 9?  At our last meeting, we talked about having meetings roughly every six weeks.  We thought that would work well. <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I have 1 location locked down for<br>the rest of the year in Glen Ellyn. The space is more than accomodating. </blockquote><div><br>You down with C.O.D?   Yeah, you know me.  <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">One<br>note about the spaces, they need to be free. We cannot expect to have people <br>to pay to join the meeting. So keep that in mind for the city location. You<br>need to be able to accomodate at least 25 people, but look to have room for<br>50. </blockquote><div><br>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. <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">4) Team Responsibilities<br>    1) Advocating Ubuntu - this means marketing. Your number one goal in a <br>LoCo team is to push Ubuntu to the masses.</blockquote><div><br>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. <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">    2) Supporting Ubuntu - this means on IRC, Launchpad, Mailing Lists, the<br> forums, and even locally. If you push Ubuntu to somebody, be prepared to<br>offer them support. </blockquote><div><br>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  . . . <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">   3) Translations - ummm, I would hate to see anything translated into<br>Chicagoan. That would be damn scary :) </blockquote><div><br>Click over dere which yer mouse.  =)<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">5) Team Goals<br>    1) We need to spec out how we should advocate. </blockquote><div><br>Yes . . .  <br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">    2) We need to come up with some sort of support offering. Or really, how <br>can we offer support better to the community.</blockquote><div><br>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.  <br></div><br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">6) Geek time!<br>    - I know a lot of people are thirsty to get into hacking something. I<br> would love to get together and hack with everyone. </blockquote><div><br>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 . . . <br><br>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.<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Everyone is more than welcome to show up at CoDLUG<br>events and we can do some break out groups or what not. I will be doing some <br>MOTU (Debian packaging), possibly some GNOME &/or KDE hacking (GTK and Qt<br>bindings for C/C++, Python, Ruby, Java, and more), and whatever else anyone<br>can think of. If you have a topic, come to the event and give it, you are <br>totally free to do so.</blockquote><div><br>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. <br></div> <br><br>This was a lot to cover . . .   :)  <br><br>Jim<br clear="all"></div><br>-- <br><a href="mailto:jwcampbell@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> jwcampbell@gmail.com</a>