<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
</head>
<body compose="true" text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff">
Hi LoCo Council & Ubuntu Americas,<br>
<br>
I wanted to provide a update on Ubuntu Oregon for your review:<br>
<br>
Ubuntu Oregon had gone pretty silent for a number of months due to
what I believe was a lack of motivation from anyone to lead the
team. I personally was disappointed about the lack of events and
during OSCON I took the lead and have been working hard to bring
things together. Ubuntu Oregon had multiple members at OSCON and
worked with the Ubuntu Washington Team to man a booth every day of
the expo and we also pulled off a popular Ubuntu Global Jam and had
approximately 15+ people in attendance. Myself and one other member
ran a Ubuntu Booth at PuppetConf this entire past week which went
very well and we distributed nearly 50 Desktop CD's and 30 Server
CD's and Four Bags of Ubuntu Lanyards.<br>
<br>
Some Improvements in Ubuntu Oregon:<br>
<ul>
<li>Ubuntu Oregon's IRC grew from 4 users to 26 since the end of
July of this year</li>
<li>Ubuntu Oregon holds regular monthly meetings on IRC and had
not done this in the past</li>
<li>Ubuntu Oregon is working to help revive Salem LUG (Salem Area
Ubuntu Users)<br>
</li>
<li>Ubuntu Oregon will have someone holding Ubuntu Classes at
FreeGeek (Myself)</li>
<li>Ubuntu Oregon has giving three talks at other related user
groups since July</li>
</ul>
<br>
I think Ubuntu Oregon is making great progress and we are reaching
out to make connections with the people at OSU OSL (Oregon State
University Open Source Labs) and I personally am trying to encourage
team members in rural areas to scout for Ubuntu Users and hold
regional meetup's when possible while providing them with resources
to do such.<br>
<br>
Notably there are still things that need to be worked on and
improved but I do think we are moving quickly in the right direction
and it is my hope that the Oregon LoCo will grow so robust that it
will never need to be revived again.<br>
<br>
And for those who likes photos here is a group photo of Canonical
Employees with Ubuntu Oregon Team from this past week at PuppetConf:
<a href="http://imgur.com/GPKMV">http://imgur.com/GPKMV</a><br>
<br>
Any feedback, questions or comments are appreciated.<br>
<br>
<div id="WISESTAMP_SIG_3533">
<div style="font-size: 13.3px; font-family:
Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<div style="border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229);
background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248); padding: 0.8em 0.8em
0.3em;">
<div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 8px;">
<p ws="true" style="margin: 0pt;">-</p>
<p ws="true" style="margin: 0pt;"><em><strong>Benjamin
Kerensa</strong></em></p>
<p ws="true" style="margin: 0pt;">Team Lead</p>
<p ws="true" style="margin: 0pt;"><img
src="cid:part1.01050200.03010601@ubuntu-oregon.org"
alt="" height="17" width="17"><span style="font-family:
arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong><a
href="http://www.ubuntu-oregon.org">Ubuntu Oregon</a></strong></span></p>
<div style="clear: both;"></div>
</div>
<a href="http://www.twitter.com/bkerensa"
style="text-decoration: underline;"><img alt="Twitter"
style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: middle;"
src="cid:part2.00070203.06000306@ubuntu-oregon.org"
height="16" width="16" border="0"></a> <a
href="http://www.facebook.com/bkerensa"
style="text-decoration: underline;"><img alt="Facebook"
style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: middle;"
src="cid:part3.08030902.00050502@ubuntu-oregon.org"
height="16" width="16" border="0"></a> <a
href="http://www.flickr.com/bkerensa"
style="text-decoration: underline;"><img alt="Flickr"
style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: middle;"
src="cid:part4.05050607.05000803@ubuntu-oregon.org"
height="16" width="16" border="0"></a> <a
href="https://plus.google.com/115750270177636397262"
style="text-decoration: underline;"><img alt="Google Plus"
style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: middle;"
src="cid:part5.01030105.00020906@ubuntu-oregon.org"
height="16" width="16" border="0"></a> <a
href="http://www.last.fm/user/bkerensa"
style="text-decoration: underline;"><img alt="Last.fm"
style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: middle;"
src="cid:part6.02040301.07010504@ubuntu-oregon.org"
height="16" width="16" border="0"></a><br>
</div>
<img src="cid:part7.07090003.08000906@ubuntu-oregon.org"
height="1" width="1"></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>