PNW Team, Oregon Team and Washington Team

[Dan Smith]

Benjamin,

The PNW Team was started first by me.  We were active and participated in
Linuxfest Northwest, held regular meetings, helped revive the GSLUG user
group and participated in Software Freedom day.  Someone within the
Ubuntu-us team wanted one loco team per state so they set out to kill the
PNW team (which was working).  So, we started a OR and WA team to appease
them.

This only created more work for me.  Instead of running one successful
active team, now I was starting up two teams and running one more.  Although
members of all three groups participated in events like the Techtonic event
at Western Washington University, we just rolled with the marketing supplies
we already had invested in, the PNW Team signage, cards, etc.

The OR-Team doesn't have a launchpad site because we never really saw the
need to create yet another site to duplicate efforts on.  Hope that explains
why the Oregon team hasn't done more on it's own.  I had already made
investments to help successfully advertise one team.  I didn't see the point
in investing more to advertise more teams just because someone wanted to
make participation political.



> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:15:14 -0700
> From: Benjamin Kerensa <bkerensa at gmail.com>
> To: ubuntu-us-or at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: Ubuntu-us-or Digest, Vol 25, Issue 8
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> Hey Dan,
>
> Thanks for the update I was just trying to figure out whats going on since
> I
> now live in Portland (Well have for a couple years now) and I'm on Ubuntu
> Bug, Manual and a few other teams I figured it might be nice to connect
> with
> the OR LoCo. I'm still confused by one thing.... I only see a PNW LoCo on
> Lanchpad and nothing for Oregon although Oregon does have a Wiki.
>
> I think Tom M. had indicated he was running things now so hopefully he will
> give more details on meetings and plans in the near future. I am starting
> to
> put together a batch of Natty CD's which I will be distributing in Portland
> and likely Tigard soon. I already convert a few people to Ubuntu every
> month
> or two and have considered testifying before the Portland City Council to
> ask the city to test drive it as a desktop platform.
>
> --
> Sincerely,
> Benjamin Kerensa
>
>
>

-- 
Best regards,

Dan Smith
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