[Ubuntu Oregon] FW: LoCo, Canonical recognition, meetings, recruitment, et al ...

[Benjamin Kerensa]

I would be willing to help setup a release party again in the furture
in Portland. Our release party with the biggest turnout was about 30
people and yeah IRC meetings died off because honestly not a lot of
people wanted to own action items :)



On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Thomas Mashos <thomas at mashos.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Pat <paddy.hayes at comcast.net> wrote:
>> In case this does not make it through moderation fro my work email...
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>> -------- Original message --------
>> From: Pat Hayes
>> Date:09/09/2014 11:00 AM (GMT-08:00)
>> To: paddy.hayes at comcast.net
>> Subject: FW: LoCo, Canonical recognition, meetings, recruitment, et al ...
>>
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>> From: Pat Hayes
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2014 10:39 AM
>> To: 'ubuntu-us-or at lists.ubuntu.com'
>> Subject: LoCo, Canonical recognition, meetings, recruitment, et al ...
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>>
>> Hi, folks.
>>
>>
>>
>> I've never been able to attend an actual meeting because as a working stiff
>> in Portland I simply cannot get down to Salem in time for the meetings.
>>
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>> I suggest we let technology come to the rescue.
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>> Currently, the meeting schedule and venue are best suited to college
>> students and/or residents of the Salem area.  The Portland metro area
>> accounts for half the population of Oregon -- and many of us simply cannot
>> make it to Salem by 6:00
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>>
>> I am NOT saying the venue should be moved to Portland.  That is completely
>> unnecessary.  I AM saying that technology provides an answer to the problem
>> of physical location.  C'mon folks -- I'm an old, grey fart and even I don't
>> think 20th Century.
>>
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>> If the venue were changed to some location with high enough bandwidth to
>> handle at least 10 - 15 open and standards compliant VoIP connections (NOT
>> Skype -- and video would be nice!) and the time were moved to 7:00 pm, those
>> of us who spent our 8 years of college decades ago and now work long hours
>> could have time to get home from work, eat supper and log in to attend.
>>
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>> I suspect you would find that more people would attend if physical locality
>> were not an issue.  You might be able to recruit more members.  Those in
>> Bend or Harney County wouldn't have to leave their living rooms.  This is
>> the 21st Century after all -- and I think Canonical would see the use of
>> technology as a feather in your cap rather than a mark against you.
>>
>>
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>> I don't have to be present in all time zones around the world to moderate on
>> the Ubuntu Forums -- technology allows me to be there to help someone in
>> India if we are both awake at the same time.
>>
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>> For what it's worth.
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>
> Your email didn't make it through, and I don't know the credentials
> for the list (apparently it's still owned by Ben). I'll answer you
> here.
>
> The Ubuntu Hour in Salem is not a Ubuntu Oregon team meeting, it is a
> Community Outreach event. Thus, you are correct in that it will not be
> moving location, date, nor time (unless the people running that event
> deem it necessary to move for the community and/or Broadway coffee
> house says we can no longer use the location).
>
> As for regular team meetings, while those haven't been scheduled in a
> long time (probably due to a single person doing most of the work),
> traditionally those were held on IRC in the team chat room.
>
> I don't recall when the last release party was (13.10?), but IIRC we
> had good turn out for all of them. Not sure if Ben kept numbers, but
> he was always working hard to get pizza and shirt sponsors, talks, and
> a venue (puppet labs in Portland) for the release parties.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Thomas Mashos
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