UbuntuOhio Feedback

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As far as the council what is it and what is its purpose?

Regarding the library project...does this include a book?
I've not tried and don't know what the success rate would be.

If you are going to have press releases, a professional organization
would be best for that...so that the press sees it as something more
serious. Barring creating such an organization (perhaps due to man
power) such press releases could come from Canonical. (Not sure
how the structure of yen's locos works whether they are child organizations
or their own...)

What is the F2F?

I believe understand the concept and reasoning behind the VIral Marketing
term, but it keeps leaving a bad taste in my mouth. (Assuming the viral
marketing thing means we inspire others to market?) Best way is for folks
to have fun..and feel welcomed (something the ohio ubuntu group does
a pretty good job of)


Monthly face to face meetings are absolutely key. Not just with the ubuntu
group...but with other groups. Folks need to see this as something real. To
do that they need to know people using ubuntu, in real situations. As long as
it is relegated to 'those people' on the net or elsewhere..no one will understand
the full scope of this. When I am at events I promote. Folks appreciate my point
of view because they have come to see that I am serious at what I do in IT. And
so The Ubuntu distribution of GNU/Linux is as tool that like any other IT setup.

I want to emphasize though, more than anything friendliness is key. Our association
started back in march or may with just two people at a meeting. It has grown rapidly
since then because people feel welcomed. Not a few times people have been brisk
with me about GNU/Linux and Ubuntu because of their experiences in the community.
Thus it is vital to show them that this is a minority. If folks come, have fun, and like
others, they will come back.




----- Original Message ----
From: Michael Price <seisen at ubuntu.com>
To: Ubuntu Ohio Team <ubuntu-us-oh at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 3:10:52 PM
Subject: UbuntuOhio Feedback

That is fine with me on getting people more active on the team before
 we
create a council. Now on to all of this

1) Ubucon Planning - This will be hard work and require a team who's
sole focus is planning.  The team would need a leader, speaker liason,
exhibit liason, press person, a/v person, and a PR person.

Well as of right now it only seems like me and Anthony are trying to
 get
anything together but hopefully that will change.

2) Getting volumes of Ubuntu/Kubuntu into public libraries, and
setting up distribution points

Has anybody had any success with getting the cd's into the public
libraries? 
        
3) Quarterly Press releases to news agencies in Ohio

Do we even have a spec on this? 

4) Revamping a support mechanism

Is the F2F not working or we just don't have enought people doing it? 


5) Viral marketing campaigns

6) More (montly) Face to Face meetings

That would be nice to have a face to face meeting sometime since I have
never met anybody on the team in person.

7) Working with LUGs and FreeGeek

I can work with some of the LUGS near me like the one in Canton and
Akron. I will have to check to see if there are any other's near me.

Joseph, I think it would be nice to have a release party in Cleveland
considering I live in Akron. I know that there a few of us that live in
the Akron/Cleveland area. Which leads me to my next idea.

I noticed that somebody created a map for Ubuntu users in the world and
there are directions on how to create one specifically for the loco
teams. How about we put something together like that so we can where
everybody is located at and then we could see where everybody is
located. 

Also Anthony I haven't had time to look at your Quick Start guide but I
find some time to and give you any feedback. 

Another thing we need to try to do is compile information about the
 team
members on what their strenghts and weaknesses are so we know who to go
to when it comes to certain things.






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