[ubuntu-us-ma] Too Little Time, Too Much To Do, RE: Website Stuff

[Ralph deGennaro]

Hi Martin,

I hope my questions weren't confusing things?  It wasn't my intent, and I
hope others were not confused by them.  They were mostly to help bring out
some more concrete thoughts about the aims.

Your second question is exactly what I'm talking about.   What does the
group think is important to tell the general public about those aims?  What
are topics to educate the public?  Under those 4 aims, what are the concrete
things we supply to the public, and what are the points to communicate about
them?  Both in what the LoCo does, as well as the greater Ubuntu community.
E.g. that cool SVG/PDF you did.

I find writing things like this quite helpful, especially on a list with
lines showing relations.  With clients, I use a whiteboard, and then take a
picture or hand-copy it.  Sometimes make a diagram of things, depending on
the rate.  ;-)  Either way, maybe a common wiki page or a whiteboard from
Launchpad (though I've never used the later) might help us?

Oh, I think we could also benefit by looking at the outside world and
figuring out what they need, not necessarily what we want to give.  See how
their aims fit into what they are looking for.  I.e. list their aims first,
then see where ours can connect, then think of the pieces that fit into the
aims.  This can bring about ideas of how to communicate to the public.
Putting down in email or writing thoughts about what "regular" people look
to get out of an OS or even just a computer would be good.

And I'm sorry to say I probably won't have time to lead any discussions
(beyond this now and random other emails).  I took myself off the list
before; you're welcome to put it back up under you Martin.

Now I should stop babbling and I've _got_ to get some sleep before another
early conf call....

Best,
Rio

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Martin Owens <doctormo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Rio,
>
> > So I hope this helps, and please, everyone chime in, and if things do
> > go I hope someone will take notes along the way....
>
> There are two main points that it's important not to confuse.
>
> First, what is the stated aims of the LoCo group? Well that is fairly
> well structured. Education, Advocacy, Support, Community.
>
> The next important question that is yet to be worked though is "What
> information is it important to show on our website to communicate our
> intention and at the same time prove inviting enough for normal people
> to get involved"
>
> I think getting the front facing website up, was the first issue. Now
> that we have something to work with and Liz has got her little dev site
> set up (and I learned more about setting the dev up on a fresh machine)
>
> Hopefully our next meeting can focus on this discussion. Although Rio
> your still down as doing that, would you like me to move that off you?
>
> Regards, Martin Owens
>
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