[ubuntu-za] Regional help and CDs

[Marco Gallotta]

I have CCed Schalk-Willem, who's at NWU. Schalk-Willem, have a look
below and see if you'd be interested in being a local Ubuntu contact
for the North West? Or could you recommend someone else?

Marco

On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 8:18 PM, maia grotepass <maiatoday at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Notable regions lacking a contact:
>> Johannesburg
>> Cape Town
>> Durban
> Actually Wesley is in Durban and I already got a box of CDs to him.
> Also JP is probably the Stellenbosch contact, as he also has access to
> sun repos if his CDs run out. Also we have Stefan from Linux System
> Dynamic (lsd.co.za) who is in Randburg. They have run release parties
> before and have had CDs available for people to pick up before too.
>
> So that leaves Cape Town ... :)
>
>>
>> Can I suggest we have one main contact point per province, and then
>> have a sub-contact for major regions within provinces where necessary.
>> So for example, Nico could be contact for Gauteng and someone else
>> sub-contact in Johannesburg. Same with PE+EL and CT+Stellies. This
>> would currently give us 5 provinces (Gauteng, WC, KZN, EC, FS) if we
>> can fill KZN. Then the main loco contact (Maia) can contact the
>> provincial contacts who then arrange to collect CDs / host release
>> parties and then they can contact the regional contacts within their
>> province to discuss whether to colloborate for a single collection /
>> joint event or go off separately.
> Yip more or less what I am trying to setup. I see this as a trial run
> for when the LTS cds get here.
>
> Also I wanted to ask that people who have the CDs take one picture of
> a meeting where a CD changes hands and sends it to me or better blog
> and send me the link. I will add this to the monthly report and this
> will make it much easier to motivate why we should get more CDs and
> why we should stay an official Loco. Maybe lots of photos with hands
> and CDs would be interesting especially if people don't want to be in
> photos. Just an idea.
>
> Maia
>
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