Facebook event for installfest

[Theresa Hepburn]

Yes, I agree that we need certain people designated for certain tasks. I 
think having a specific responsibility provides a strong sense of 
ownership and accomplishment, it gives a person a sense of pride in what 
they're accomplished.

Currently we have a bunch of people haphazardly working on a bunch of 
projects without a clearly defined focus, it leads to disorganization 
and confusion, especially in terms of events. We don't have an event 
chair who would be the only voice to say "on this day at this time we 
will be handing out flyers." In this team's present state, we need to 
filter through countless email threads in an attempt to decipher what 
the final time/location was which simply isn't practical nor would I 
expect any rational person to do that on a regular basis. On top of 
this, I find tasks hold less meaning for the individual and he or she is 
less likely to continue with it when they're not wholly dedicated to it. 
At this point our group has a small number of  people with their hands 
in everything which is not at all efficient. In my opinion we need a 
specialization of trade but I don't get the impression that our 
currently active members are willing to keep their hands out of those 
tasks they've been semi-consistently taking charge of. Until that 
happens I don't expect any volunteers will remain committed to a project 
if they never know when they'll wake up one morning and find their work 
deleted or grossly modified without warning.

Maybe we need a wiki page dedicated to persons responsible for certain 
tasks in addition to team officers and/or committee chairs? This would 
be a clear indication of what positions need filling and what tasks 
people should keep their hands out of our who to contact about 
suggestions or requests. I thought I remembered seeing something similar 
to this idea but I don't quite remember where.

As an unrelated side note, Brad (ouegamer), is moving out of the state 
so we have lost his contact with those periodicals and I'm assuming he 
won't be maintaining the toolbox anymore either.

~ Theresa (avila)

Martin Owens wrote:
> In these cases what we need is a group is people who are willing to
> spend a little time looking after these programs. The idea of our
> group is to be as inclusive as possible while trying not to overburden
> any of the members too much. No one I know of has stepped forward to
> manage Virtual PR or Social Networking.
>
> On 19/02/2008, Tony Koker <TonyKoker at bigfoot.com> wrote:
>   
>> Growth won't happen until there's a presence.  Not sure how a FaceBook
>> network could be built, as the groupings of networks fall into one of only
>> four categories: Region, College, Work Place or High School.
>> There are also other sites, liked LinkedIn (more profession / business
>> oriented) and Second Life, not to mention MySpace.
>>  In any a case.  Something like an RSS feed, from existing Calendar (or an
>> imbed of the existing Calendar) or other source would be best.  Then an
>> update would only have to happen in one place.
>>
>> tony k (aka HAGOLARK / Analyst / Analyst2)
>>
>>
>> On Feb 19, 2008 12:28 AM, Danny Piccirillo <danny.piccirillo at ubuntu.com>
>> wrote:
>>     
>>> well, our presence on the social networking sites isn't very big yet. I
>>>       
>> don't think it will be worth the effort of updating event information on
>> those sites until we have a broader base there
>>     
>>> On Feb 19, 2008 12:27 AM, Danny Piccirillo <danny.piccirillo at gmail.com>
>>>       
>> wrote:
>>     
>>>> well, our presence on the social networking sites isn't very big yet. I
>>>>         
>> don't think it will be worth the effort of updating event information on
>> those sites until we have a broader base there
>>     
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> On Feb 18, 2008 11:41 PM, Caleb Marcus <caleb.marcus at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
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>>>>> I'm not sure... I mean, perhaps someone else a bit more involved
>>>>>           
>> should do it. DPic maybe? I'm just not sure how well I'll keep up with
>> events...
>>     
>>>>> On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 04:21 -0500, Martin Owens wrote:
>>>>> If we don't have one (and I think we might) it would be good to
>>>>> dedicate the task of looking after the account to someone so that are
>>>>> tasks are focused and spread out. Would you like to take the job Caleb
>>>>> all other things being equal?
>>>>>
>>>>> On 13/02/2008, Caleb Marcus <caleb.marcus at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>           
>>>>>> I was thinking that perhaps a Facebook event would be a good way to
>>>>>> publicize the installfest... tons of people use Facebook already,
>>>>>>             
>> and it
>>     
>>>>>> would be easy to invite friends and get the info out there. I'd
>>>>>>             
>> create one
>>     
>>>>>> myself, but I'm not sure if we already have one...
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