[DC LoCo] Fwd: ubuntu-districtofcolumbia will expire soon from locoteams

[Kevin Cole]

Hi all,

I sent the following to Jono and Jorge a couple of days ago as per the
instructions in the e-mail notice, but I guess I should escalate. ;-)

And, after writing to them, I sent word out to the team, getting a
number of responses that paraphrase Monty Python and the Holy Grail:
"We're not dead yet! We feel happy!"  I'm assuming the deal is largely
the same: Update web sites, meet the council on IRC? Several expressed
interest in doing that. There has been some discussion with a member
who's also involved with the ACM about meeting to consolidate our info
in one place rather than scatter it to a few different places on the
web, but that meeting won't take place until April 24.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Kevin Cole <dc.loco at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 06:46
Subject: Re: ubuntu-districtofcolumbia will expire soon from locoteams
To: jono at ubuntu.com, jorge at ubuntu.com

I've personally been rather busy volunteering as a "local community"
(lower case) advocate of FOSS in general and Ubuntu being the flagship
example, as part of the DC Broadband Bridge effort to close the
digital divide, kids and technology meetings, accesdibility meetings
and also at e-cycling events, showing people how to breathe new life
into old computers instead of throwing them out. I'm not really
involved in development, bug reporting, IRC, or mailing lists outside
of the DC area -- my "local community".

As LoCo Team Contact, I've "contacted the LoCo Team" with word of our
impending demise, and hope they will come out and help plead our case.
I suck as an organizer / leader, but no one else wants to be team
contact...

If that doesn't work out, is it possibly to purchase, at a reasonable
rate, the big box of CDs sent to LoCos? With my involvement in digital
divide efforts, I'm finding a lot of folks who are increasingly
receptive to the idea of self-determination through local knowledge
and control of their technologies, and the nicely packaged CDs go a
long way in helping. If not, I may explore ways to bulk produce
locally, which is probably more sustainable in the long run anyway.

I hope to get back to you all soon with word from "the team".

Later!