<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Hi Simon, I added myself to the Planet. It's great you can provide a Planet for a local group. Concerning Dreamwidth, I would like to hear if two others would be interested first. Thanks, Sam <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05/01/2016 08:53 PM, Simon Quigley wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:5726B32A.9040508@ubuntu.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Good evening, Mike Putnam wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I've drifted away due to a personal disinterest in evangelizing Ubuntu or trying to create converts. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> To an extent, I agree. It gets repetitive after a while. But I think that if some members want to do some things and others do, well, other things, this will help, so not everybody has to evangelize. We just need to find members to do that. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I'd like to "talk shop" with other Ubuntu users who already have an interest. Maybe learn how others are directly participating in open source (so that I may join them). Or demonstrate ways I've found success with Ubuntu. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> I do too. :) </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Further, I think that an in-person gathering or communal project would need to come *AFTER* a stable, somewhat closely-knit, group of people exist who communicate regularly - "a community". In our situation that community would need to be online due to geography. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> I agree, but it's definitely something to keep in mind. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">P.S. I find it heartening that this conversation thread even exists, as it demonstrates that there is already some amount of online community somehow interested in Ubuntu, in Wisconsin(ish). Let's figure out how to keep it alive by staying in contact online and via email. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> I do too, let's keep up the trend. ;) Sam Klein wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Many people may say -- go do this, etc. and then when you're there, people will respond. But honestly, I think it's best if the team did what it was most comfortable with and something that they can engage as much to or as little as they want/need. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> I agree. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I think one approach is to use a decentralized blogging community to keep people engaged -- like Planet Ubuntu [2]. This way -- we can stay in our own counties -- never needing to head off to some arbitrary town every month. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Well we shouldn't have frequent meetings that requires long drives. Maybe a release party every 6 months. :) And, we have a planet for this LoCo[1] hosted by my friend Thomas Ward[2]. If you want to be added/removed from that, let me know. You can also submit a pull request[3] or if you don't want to do that, send me patch mail. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">If few of our members have websites, we can use Dreamwidth, a decentralized journaling web application that you can register with using either Dreamwidth or an OpenID account. Members can subscribe to a "community" account and post to it. I could set it up. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Set it up, let's try it out and see how it works. :) </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">For physical meetings, I propose a yearly meeting instead or bi-yearly if the first meeting is fun enough. That way we get pictures of all Ubuntu users, have some drinks (or not), play some FreeCiv or RedEclipse on our Ubuntu/Debian machines, and then maybe do some minor official things -- like talk about resources or future plans for the group. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> I really like this idea, I'll start a separate thread tomorrow after I get our mailing list situation sorted, it could be a release party or an informal get-together. Let me know in that thread tomorrow. :) [1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://planet.ubuntu-wisconsin.org/">http://planet.ubuntu-wisconsin.org/</a> [2] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://launchpad.net/~teward">https://launchpad.net/~teward</a> [3] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/ubuntuwisconsin/planet.ubuntu-wisconsin.org">https://github.com/ubuntuwisconsin/planet.ubuntu-wisconsin.org</a> Josh Hertel wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Others have pretty much covered what I think. In 2006/2007 I had a lot of interest in trying to spread the word about Ubuntu, but then life got in the way of things. I'm not as interested in converting folks nowadays, but I'm happy to talk shop when I meet a fellow user. I also enjoy reading posts from this community, info from the local LUG, and helping (a little) with Full Circle Magazine. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> I agree, and I think this is generally a shared interest. But there is probably *someone* who wants to evangelize. Speak up! ;) </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">During the school year, life is pretty hectic for me (as others have noted on another thread) so I'm pretty much in read mode with emails (responding only when necessary). </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> >From what I've heard, high school will be a lot more hectic than 8th grade(what I'm in now). If this is the case, I still have summer, weekends, and winter/spring break. :) </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Regarding a physical meeting, I don't think I'd really be drawn to an install fest. However, if there were some community-focused project that a member needed help with (e.g., installing computers in a community center, updating machines in an existing place), that would probably draw me in. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Would you be drawn to the sort of meetup Sam described earlier? </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Like Mike, I also appreciate the conversation and the energy. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> I do too, let's keep it up. :) Thank you all for your feedback and have a nice evening! </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>