[ubuntu-us-ma] Touching Base With Community

[Adam Hathaway]

Thanks for the reply Martin.  I was waiting to see if we heard back from
Mike about the DNS records before I responded but figured I would get this
conversation going again.  I do feel that the website is a duplication of
the portal/wiki and I also feel that perhaps it is not needed but I would
like to keep the wiki.  I was looking around the portal and I feel that it
is too canned and does not offer up much personalization.  If we could
instead point the website to redirect to the wiki, I feel that there we can
give a more personal presentation and point to the portal from there for
the "heavy lifting".

I recognize that there may not be too much response to the call to action
and it is a task that I am undertaking to build the team and spread the
word.  I wanted to get input from the members we have/had before I ask the
members that come because I feel that our best source of input is from
members that we have already influenced whether that be positive or
negative.  I am unsure about how many members we have here on the mailing
list so I do not know how far that information reaches.

While I understand that many have been driven away from Canonical/Ubuntu
because of some decisions made I do have a vision of a team that is more
built around Ubuntu's ideals and maybe a little less on their technology.
 This does not mean I am not going to promote Ubuntu and I continue to use
it, but I think the value add is more around building an enthusiastic
community, with a solid support structure,  that contributes in a way that
is fun to the people within the community.

Thanks for listening to my rant.

Adam Hathaway

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 4:12 AM, Martin Owens <doctormo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Adam,
>
> Great to hear you're still on the case trying to get the group back on
> it's feet... see comments below.
>
> On Wed, 2011-11-02 at 00:15 -0500, Adam Hathaway wrote
> > 1. Status of our website.  What is the next step needed to bring this
> > back up and when/who will be doing this?
>
> The website will be back when we have a machine to run it on. It might
> be time to consider that the website just isn't needed any more since
> the loco directory does the heavy lifting. We could always point the
> domain name at that while we work out the details.
>
> Mike do you have the DNS records?
>
> > 2. I am still looking for responses/actions to the MA LoCo Call to
> > Action
> >
> http://ahflossblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/ubuntu-ma-loco-call-to-action.html
> .
> >  I feel that this is vitally important to the growth and future of
> > this
> > team and so my hope is you will all
>
> The group is small, there are 2 Ubuntu Members still active; myself and
> paultag, who is a recent addition. There aren't many people to talk to
> inside the group yet. This is why whenever there is an event, we need to
> get the message out into the real world and not just to the mailing
> list; where hardly anyone will see it.
>
> Think about posting to university groups, other 'Linux' groups and
> various communities. This is Massachusetts, so we have to work hard to
> get over some of the bad impressions from a lot of existing Linux
> people. But we should also be looking out for new nontechnical users to
> join in too.
>
> Ubuntu remains the best community online and the best technology on the
> ground (almost every group uses it, just ask) but we've not been very
> good at getting people into the group.
>
> > 3. In the absence of our website it has been brought to my attention
> > that
> > our MASS wiki page,
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MassachusettsTeam/Information,
> > has been neglected for years.  I did some updating but I would love if
> > others could pitch in and help move the wiki page in the right
> > direction.
>
> We should delete the wiki, all of the information should be either on
> askubuntu, loco-directory or other resources. Please don't be afraid to
> delete pages.
>
> Martin,
>
>
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