[ubuntu-florida] augmenting Sep 22. meeting

[Chris Crisafulli]

On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 23:56 -0400, Jamal wrote:
> Hi Vikram,
> 
> First I wanted to thank you and welcome you to the team. I'm a
> relatively new member and love how nice everyone here is so I know you
> will fit right in. I wanted to take a second and mention that the
> team's purpose is more towards spreading and supporting Ubuntu.
> Therefore, it may not completely be your target audience. There are
> plenty of programmers within the team though, including myself, that
> would love to help out. I'm just not sure if it should be done as a
> team collaborated project.
> 
> Secondly, I understand it is difficult for you to find transportation,
> so I wanted to mention that I am willing to give you ride to the
> different events I can make provided that you aren't too far from me.
> I'm in Sanford, so as long as you're not south of downtown that
> shouldn't be a problem.
> 
> Let me know how I can be of any help, and it would be great to see you
> sometime soon! Hopefully you can make it to the event on Saturday, and
> if not I will hopefully see you in IRC.
> 
> Jamal Fanaian
>
>         About our little meeting on Saturday, I think if everyone is
>         comfortable
>         with gooby we can use it. I will follow up on this email
>         almost
>         everyday, so people can tell me what they think. Please send
>         your
>         feedback, if you guys think this is a good start...
>         
>         - --
>         Regards,
>         
>         Vikram Dhillon
>         http://edge.launchpad.net/~dhillon-v10

Thanks for posting this to the List Vikram. I do believe the
collaboration tool you are talking about is Gobby, so for anyone that
hasn't used it before just: sudo apt-get install gobby. If this is
something we plan on using more often on the team it might be wise to
make this available on http://ubuntu-fl.org.

Jamal, 

Thanks for offering to provide transportation for Vikram. Hopefully his
parents will be okay with that, in if not now possibly in the future.
I think that this is a good opportunity for some people on the Mailing
list take advantage and get involved. If someone is not a programmer
that doesn't necessarily exclude them from participating. For example
(and these are only examples)...

reya276 can provide project related artwork like Avatar or .ico files
and such.

Michelle_Qimo can help with Documentation and organizing
meet-ups/discussions that are related to the development of this
project.

Packaging for the project can be done by anyone with a desire to learn
packaging. 

What I am trying to get at is this seems to be a golden opportunity for
participants to step up and learn some skills they wouldn't normally be
able have an opportunity to learn, in a cool project that has great
potential. It can also be used to help identify new interests within the
team, and could result in some training opportunities for those that
would like to become developers. 

Thanks for your time,

Chris C.
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