There was talk before...

[Darcy Casselman]

We have roughly a half-dozen to a dozen people who regularly show up
for IRC meetings and occasionally do stuff.  I guess that's "core."

But they're doing their own thing.  I'm not going to say they should
feel compelled to help administer a forum if they have no interest in
a forum.  Plus, I'd like to get more people in the "core."  More's the
better.  Best way to do that, as I see it, is hand out a little
responsibility and see how they handle it.

(Not that aspiring Ubuntu advocates need to be handed a job.  If you
see something that needs to be done, do it!  If you don't know how or
need something, ask!)

Darcy.

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Tek Ang <rugbeeprop at yahoo.com> wrote:
> How many 'core' team member do we have?
> And if I may suggest, that we start with the 'core' and once everything is
> up and running, we can figure out how many admins do we need, etc etc etc.
> This way, we are not holding up the starting up of the forum.
> In the past, I started a fan page on facebook group for Indonesian Rugby
> Team (now it is the official team page). I got in touch with the actual team
> members and added a few of the main contact onto the admin roles. And now,
> they have enough (about 10 or so) admins that will ensure the continuation
> of the page.
> Tek
> ________________________________
> From: Darcy Casselman <dscassel at gmail.com>
> To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Wed, October 13, 2010 10:40:10 AM
> Subject: Re: There was talk before...
>
> That's something I'm hoping we can avoid over time.  But we have to
> start somewhere.
>
> One of the jobs of the "administrators" should be to find recruit new
> administrators to keep it going.  I'm hoping we can get these things
> (the forum, the website, other projects) growing organically so they
> don't have to be centrally managed.  Not chaos, just decentralized.  I
> don't want to have just one "LoCo Contact" anymore.  Lots of people
> should have keys to that castle.
>
> But it's up to people to step up and make sure the things they want to
> see get done get done.
>
> Darcy.
>
> 2010/10/13 James <james2432 at gmail.com>:
>> That's what I am saying, people that receive admin should be very
>> active/devoted people, because if you lose 1 or 2 due to inactivity
>> it's not bad, but when you loose 4 or more then you are starting to
>> have a problem(chasing people around to get stuff done), which kind of
>> reminds me of the LoCo website(before the move to the new host) where
>> you had to contact someone at the admin for them to change it
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Ralph Janke <txwikinger at ubuntu.com>
>> wrote:
>>>  Well.. administrator should not be seen as a title or privilege, but as
>>> a responsibility. I do not care about the ratio, because it is not about
>>> authority,
>>> but it is about accessibility. If you have to chase people that have no
>>> interest any more
>>> in order to get things done. it is not good. If access is shouldered on
>>> a wider
>>> base, you get things done. That is what it is about in the end!
>>>
>>> - Ralph
>>>
>>> On 10/13/2010 09:56 AM, James wrote:
>>>> but then again not every user should be admin, we'll have to find a
>>>> good ratio of people to risk of losing all admins due to
>>>> inactivity..reminds me of bad times in statistics class *shivers*
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Ralph Janke<txwikinger at ubuntu.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>  Please get more than one administrator... we should have as many as
>>>>> possible to
>>>>> prevent the issues we have with the legacy stuff.
>>>>>
>>>>> - Ralph
>>>>>
>>>>> On 10/13/2010 12:48 AM, Darcy Casselman wrote:
>>>>>> It's my understanding that we just need to ask and we can get a forum
>>>>>> set up.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> However, we will need some trustworthy people to volunteer to
>>>>>> administer the forum before we can go ahead.  You interested, Mark?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Darcy.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 11:06 PM, Mark Ueki
>>>>>> Mina<themarker0 at hotmail.com>    wrote:
>>>>>>> About getting a forum for us, so us newer generation users have a
>>>>>>> place to
>>>>>>> talk. :P
>>>>>>> (the above is a joke, since it did seem from the conversation
>>>>>>> beforehand the
>>>>>>> older were less interested in the forum, thinking the mailing list
>>>>>>> still
>>>>>>> does the job)
>>>>>>> Any idea what happened to that? I understand Midterms are soon, so
>>>>>>> some of
>>>>>>> the university/College students might be busy, but any updates?
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