UBUNTU: [SPAM] Re: Thanks Ahmed

[Linda Halligan]

Valorie Zimmerman wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Linda Halligan
> <linda.halligan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Dec 16, 2009, at 8:10 PM, Paul Bartell wrote:

<snip>

> I love mail lists for medium-to-long range planning. Wikis, on the
> other hand, are a great way to present information, such as events,
> projects, and such.
> 
> Nothing beats IRC for quickly focussing discussions, brainstorming,
> and coming up with short-range plans. Perhaps we could post the logs
> of IRC meetings on the blog? But make those pages non-editable.
> 

I think we should post IRC meeting logs on the wiki and link to them 
with a summary of the meeting from the blog, facebook page (still being 
created), twitter (no summary :P ), our personal blogs, etc. That way 
people who are looking for this info can find it on the meeting wiki 
pages as is the standard with other groups.

> I don't know if the list archives are googled, but the wiki should be,
> which will make it easier for people to find us.
> 

The archives are googleable however nothing comes up from them as of yet 
when you google "ubuntu washington loco."  There are a few things from 
those search terms that link back to the Wa LoCo resources but nothing 
that points directly to our LoCo resources. That will presumably change 
once we have more activity on the wiki pages and once we are approved 
and can get a ubuntu-us.org subdomain for our website.

> Once we get approved as an official LoCo, we get a forum too, right?

We can get a forum right now. We just need Chuck to follow the procedure 
to request it outlined here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoCreatingForum

> Does that automatically feed to the list? 

I'm not sure if we can set that up. That will probably be something 
Chuck has to figure out or ask about since he will be the forum admin.

> Again, forums get spidered
> by Google, which makes it easy to find us.
> 

Word. The more resources we can get out there with our name that point 
back to information on the current actions we are taking the easier it 
will be for people to find us and join it. :)


> My two cents,
> 
> Valorie