What Happened?

[Ralph Janke]

Well.. yeah somehow the LoCo was asleep a little bit for a while because
nobody stepped up to fill the gap when the previous leadership moved on
due to time reasons.

However, we are trying to change this now.  We are coming up for 
re-approval
as a LoCo this month, so it would be nice and helpful if we have some 
suggestions
what in particular is missing and what we can do better or change.

Remember also always that we are all volunteers. Therefore, I would like to
put everything on as many shoulders as possible. Hopefully, everything
we do will be done by multiple people, so that we do not experience issue
when someone is temporarily out of time, or circumstances in life change
and it is time to move on.

I know, it is not an easy task to organize such, but I am convinced with the
goodwill of everybody here, we should be able to get something rolling.

Due to the big country we are in, we should federalize our structure a 
little bit.
Hence, I would encourage everybody to start local chapters as we have done
here in Kitchener/Waterloo area. Hopefully, we can help each other in 
neighboring
areas a little bit even with physical presence, but I would hope that 
the overall
Canadian LoCo should act as an umbrella to which the local chapters can 
come for
questions and advice, and hopefully, we can also give encouragement.

Otherwise, I believe the umbrella LoCo should not need to approve 
activities that anybody
is pursuing in their local communities. We all know (or should know :)) 
the CoC and this
is our guideline for activities. So just go and do something. And 
hopefully you tell all
of us what works, what doesn't work and so on that we can learn from 
each other
and share best practices.

The LoCo council has also published some documentation in this regard 
(Darcy: thanks
for the url). So feel free to read it and start something and improve 
something that is
already going.

In regards to the website. We had some discussions about this and we 
have set up a VM
to host our knew website. We certainly looking still for some 
individuals that are willing
to help setting it up and maintaining it. At this time, drupal is setup 
and a couple
of themes have been added.

Btw.. Brett's design is still there. 
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CanadianTeam/Meetings/2010-05-16

It looks great. Is that a drupal theme? We also need to discuss how much 
we want to follow
the default ubuntu theme which has changed for Lucid. However, I think 
Brett's design is
a very big step in the right direction! Thanks for that.

I probably will be organizing our re-approval, 
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CanadianTeam/ReApprovalApplication2010

Please feel free to add to the information we have already collected. 
Also, when we have
a date in front of the LoCo council, I would appreciate if as many as 
possible could show up
in the IRC channel to show presence. That is always a good thing.

Well, I think this e-mail is already long enough. Please feel free to 
help, contribute, discuss, etc.,
I believe our community can work best if we don't work top-down, but 
bottom-up. However, good
communications and sharing can help all of us.

Thanks,

Ralph Janke (txwikinger)


On 06/03/2010 08:14 AM, Brett Alton wrote:
> I stopped because no one seemed to respond to my offers of hosting and
> website design.
>
> Also, there doesn't seem to be a leader of any sort, organizing all
> the information on this mailing list and thus no drive towards a goal.
> Someone, with time, needs to step forward and organize everyone.
>
> Also, did our minutes get deleted?[1] I had my design up there.
>
> [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CanadianTeam/May%202010
>
> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 7:09 AM, Stephen Kawamoto<shkawamoto at yahoo.com>  wrote:
>    
>> One of the reasons why I stopped posting to the ubuntu-ca list is because of my personal advancement from novice to advanced Linux user.
>>
>> As well, my writing style comes across as not remembering to follow the KISS paradigm to help novice members of the list understand what I mean.
>>
>> The only way this may be done is to contribute to the mailing list, and to use feedback from novice and intermediate members as needed.
>>
>> Currently, I am maintaining Karmic Koala until word comes down that 10.0 LTS is stable.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> ubuntu-ca mailing list
>> ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com
>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ca
>>
>>      
>    

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