[ubuntu-us] State of Texas meetup?

Brandon Perry bperry.volatile at gmail.com
Tue Dec 11 20:50:57 GMT 2007


I don't have my blog on the planet. How would I go about doing this?

I think an IRC chat would be great if we could get people to come to. I
don't think there should be a problem with that, but you never know.


On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 08:22 -0600, Belinda A. Lopez wrote:
> Great Brandon!
>    I'm very willing to help in any way possible but have been  
> hesitant to take the lead b/c of time.  The Houston Team has been up  
> and running for a year now but just when we were ready to try to get  
> approved, they changed the rules to State-only  and not city teams.   
> The Team pretty much decided to just remain as is b/c the local team  
> met their needs better than any Texas Team could.  However, for  
> accounting/logistical purposes  I see why Jono and Canonical can only  
> support State-level teams.  I think we can move forward with the  
> umbrella Texas team and have several chapters already in place.  We  
> just need to get the organization setup for the state team.  Let's  
> set up an IRC meeting to discuss.  If you have your blog on Planet  
> Ubuntu or other, we can use that and the Fridge to help gather folks.
> 
> I think shooting for an Ubucon event next summer somewhere in the  
> state would be a great goal.  imho, I think Austin is a great venue,  
> it's central and we can probably get Dell to help sponsor and perhaps  
> even host the event.
> 
> How about an IRC meeting this Sunday, Dec. 16th at 8PM in #ubuntu-us- 
> tx??
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Belinda/Dinda
> 
> On Dec 11, 2007, at 8:09 AM, Brandon Perry wrote:
> 
> > I am very willing to take that challenge ;-).
> >
> > On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 07:33 -0500, Steve Stalcup wrote:
> >> On Dec 10, 2007 5:52 PM, Brandon Perry <bperry.volatile at gmail.com>  
> >> wrote:
> >>> Would the LoCo leaders in Texas like to coordinate a Texas meet  
> >>> up this
> >>> summer? We could discuss what we could do to get approved as well as
> >>> other things that might pertain to the cause.
> >>
> >> In my opinion, someone needs to stand up and take the lead on this
> >> issue in Texas.  There are the two or three City LoCo teams, and that
> >> is fantastic.  What we really need is someone to set up the state
> >> team, and the resources.  Once this is done, you will see the state
> >> team start to grow.
> >>
> >> Who will stand up and take on this challenge :)
> >>
> >
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