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[Eric Wentworth]

Sounds good!  We are going to need help if we are going to pull off any 
kind of movement!  :)

Elizabeth Bevilacqua wrote:
> On 8/24/07, claydoh <claydoh at claydoh.com> wrote:
>   
>> It was suggested by Pleia2 in irc to set up an official ubuntuforums forum
>> through vorian, and I agree. It would be easier to maintain, and the website
>> could remain for blogs, photo galleries, announcements, etc.
>>     
>
> Some things to consider about having an official maine.ubuntuforums.org set up:
>
> Good place to get new members: The official forums are very commonly
> the first resource people stumble upon to discover a LoCo team. TBH
> that's where I looked and when I didn't see one there I assumed there
> wasn't a forum set up yet.
>
> Easy entry: A lot of people already have ubuntuforums logins, no need
> to create new logins and set up a whole new forum user on a different
> site. I've found that the key to success in these groups is making
> things as easy as possible :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Lyz/pleia2 (who doesn't live in anymore Maine, but grew up there,
> visits often and is still quite fond of it, so she dropped in to help
> out!)
>
>