What Happened?

[Dorian Douma]

I love Bret's design, looks great to me.

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Ralph Janke <txwikinger at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
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